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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
Some finds from Lowmead
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 114145" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>Called in at the Bundy gem show. Dad picked up his trim saw, I bought a few blank silver findings.</p><p></p><p>Went down to Lowmead yesterday. Finally found something that I reckon has a facettable stone in it - a smokey amethyst crystal a bit larger than the end joint of a man's thumb. Like almost all of them from Lowmead it is cracked but there's enough clean material in it for a decent stone I think. Will post a photo when I can get my home computer internet functioning again.</p><p></p><p>I shifted to a new spot after digging in the last hole I dug for a couple of hours and finding nothing. The quartz layer in the new hole was mainly orange quartz rather than white. The smokey amethyst popped up on the end of the shovel - most of the bigger bits I've found there were spotted as they fell out of the quartz layer rather than finding them in the sieve. Also got a flat piece of ametrine - not too cracked but too flat to do anything with unfortunately.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 114145, member: 2976"] Called in at the Bundy gem show. Dad picked up his trim saw, I bought a few blank silver findings. Went down to Lowmead yesterday. Finally found something that I reckon has a facettable stone in it - a smokey amethyst crystal a bit larger than the end joint of a man's thumb. Like almost all of them from Lowmead it is cracked but there's enough clean material in it for a decent stone I think. Will post a photo when I can get my home computer internet functioning again. I shifted to a new spot after digging in the last hole I dug for a couple of hours and finding nothing. The quartz layer in the new hole was mainly orange quartz rather than white. The smokey amethyst popped up on the end of the shovel - most of the bigger bits I've found there were spotted as they fell out of the quartz layer rather than finding them in the sieve. Also got a flat piece of ametrine - not too cracked but too flat to do anything with unfortunately. [/QUOTE]
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Some finds from Lowmead
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