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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Barrington tops area to get saphires and gems please
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<blockquote data-quote="Pat Hogen" data-source="post: 601458" data-attributes="member: 11720"><p>Sapphires are reported to have been obtained from Holocene alluvial deposits in the creeks draining Barrington and Gloucester Tops. The sapphires are mainly blue, but many reddish to mauve gems are present. Some of the red gems have been positively identified as rubies.</p><p></p><p>- <strong><em>MacNevin and Holmes 1980.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p>What is not reported is that the gems are mainly sub 3mm size and no large gems have ever been recorded.</p><p></p><p>Another deposit at Nundle, on the forestry roadside have yielded blue and green gems and again the size was small. I did screen one small ovoid gem that was a pristine green and approx 4mm. I think I still have it in a tin in the cutting room, but it will yield nothing. I have never found a report of large gemstone sapphires.</p><p></p><p>Diamonds have been recorded at several locations in clay deposits but nothing more than industrial worth as in the Bricklay (Brick Clay) Creek Muluerindie Deap Lead - Field work by <strong><em>Loudon, Cooney and Bowman.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p>You will not get rich here off sapphire and diamond though you may come upon sizeable nuggets of gold in quartz nodules in creeks and outcrops. It is rugged country and there are some wild people wandering those areas.</p><p></p><p>Glen Innes to Inverell would be a better location for specking and washing larger gems and the best blues you will ever see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pat Hogen, post: 601458, member: 11720"] Sapphires are reported to have been obtained from Holocene alluvial deposits in the creeks draining Barrington and Gloucester Tops. The sapphires are mainly blue, but many reddish to mauve gems are present. Some of the red gems have been positively identified as rubies. - [b][i]MacNevin and Holmes 1980. [/i][/b] What is not reported is that the gems are mainly sub 3mm size and no large gems have ever been recorded. Another deposit at Nundle, on the forestry roadside have yielded blue and green gems and again the size was small. I did screen one small ovoid gem that was a pristine green and approx 4mm. I think I still have it in a tin in the cutting room, but it will yield nothing. I have never found a report of large gemstone sapphires. Diamonds have been recorded at several locations in clay deposits but nothing more than industrial worth as in the Bricklay (Brick Clay) Creek Muluerindie Deap Lead - Field work by [b][i]Loudon, Cooney and Bowman. [/i][/b] You will not get rich here off sapphire and diamond though you may come upon sizeable nuggets of gold in quartz nodules in creeks and outcrops. It is rugged country and there are some wild people wandering those areas. Glen Innes to Inverell would be a better location for specking and washing larger gems and the best blues you will ever see. [/QUOTE]
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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
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Barrington tops area to get saphires and gems please
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