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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
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Recommendations for fossicking areas on an impending Qld holiday?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 410287" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>No worries mate. Do take care on that track into Mount Gibson - it's about the longest 6km I've ever driven, you could probably walk there almost as fast. Some very hairy gully crossings and it was different each time I went after each wet season.</p><p></p><p>There's a couple of different spots on the mountain. "Glittering star" diggings produces mainly colourless and some blue. "Patricia" diggings around the other side of the mountain produces a very pale gold topaz. The interesting thing is that these crystals make good specimens in themselves as they are only just weathering out of the parent material, have not yet had the chance to become water-worn and still have a shiny surface and the original crystal shape - a four-sided crystal with a diamond-shaped cross-section.</p><p></p><p>I never found any really large ones there myself (still some nice little cuttters though) but I bumped into a bloke there who showed me some large crystals between 50 and 100 carats that he said came from Patricia.</p><p></p><p>The digging sites themselves are small but you'll know them when you find them, a bunch of shallow pits and trenches. If you start finding smoky quartz crystals, that's a good sign :Y:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 410287, member: 2976"] No worries mate. Do take care on that track into Mount Gibson - it's about the longest 6km I've ever driven, you could probably walk there almost as fast. Some very hairy gully crossings and it was different each time I went after each wet season. There's a couple of different spots on the mountain. "Glittering star" diggings produces mainly colourless and some blue. "Patricia" diggings around the other side of the mountain produces a very pale gold topaz. The interesting thing is that these crystals make good specimens in themselves as they are only just weathering out of the parent material, have not yet had the chance to become water-worn and still have a shiny surface and the original crystal shape - a four-sided crystal with a diamond-shaped cross-section. I never found any really large ones there myself (still some nice little cuttters though) but I bumped into a bloke there who showed me some large crystals between 50 and 100 carats that he said came from Patricia. The digging sites themselves are small but you'll know them when you find them, a bunch of shallow pits and trenches. If you start finding smoky quartz crystals, that's a good sign :Y: [/QUOTE]
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