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I carried out some electrical work for and old miner named Joe. He paid me off with a few diamonds. My friends mined for alluvial tin and uncovered a lot of sapphires and a few good diamonds. One of the sapphires was a 54 carat star sapphire.
There was also a small crater which there was an attempt to locate diamonds but the water beat them, no big enough pumps in those days. I have seen the blue coloured clay from this crater and there was also plenty of tourmaline present. It's a shame that it's all under water now.
We used to pick up Sapphires off the ground at Sapphire after rain sixty years ago and some of the sapphires which I later fasceted were hexagonal crystals, hardly water worn.
It's been a long time but I am going to try to locate a couple of areas which I was taken too all those years ago where there were lots of diamonds found. At that time no one had been to the site for more than 100 years. Interesting isn't it!
There was also a small crater which there was an attempt to locate diamonds but the water beat them, no big enough pumps in those days. I have seen the blue coloured clay from this crater and there was also plenty of tourmaline present. It's a shame that it's all under water now.
We used to pick up Sapphires off the ground at Sapphire after rain sixty years ago and some of the sapphires which I later fasceted were hexagonal crystals, hardly water worn.
It's been a long time but I am going to try to locate a couple of areas which I was taken too all those years ago where there were lots of diamonds found. At that time no one had been to the site for more than 100 years. Interesting isn't it!