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Who said there's no detectable gold in Tasmania?
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<blockquote data-quote="user 1769" data-source="post: 150411" data-attributes="member: 1769"><p>I haven't heard of sapphires or much gold in the Rossarden / Storeys Creek area, so I doubt it was there. That was a tin/wolfram area with a bit of uranium. The majority of sapphires are in the northeast, and there's not much of anything at all in the middle... unless he's talking Adamsfield. The last leaseholder there, Rusty Morley, had the osmiridium licence, and he also used to get a bit of gold. He would often get sapphires in his sluices and used to toss them in the creek with the rest of the chromite, zircons, topaz, and other assorted heavies. You can still find sapphires there, but the whole area has now been exempted from mining, and prospecting is no longer permitted.</p><p></p><p>Sapphires also occurred with tin on the west coast, at Stanley River, with tin, gold and osmiridium at the Wilson River, and in some of the north-draining rivers on the north-west coast. These also carry a bit of gold. Perhaps it's a possibility. Another possibility is the Moina/Middlesex area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 1769, post: 150411, member: 1769"] I haven't heard of sapphires or much gold in the Rossarden / Storeys Creek area, so I doubt it was there. That was a tin/wolfram area with a bit of uranium. The majority of sapphires are in the northeast, and there's not much of anything at all in the middle... unless he's talking Adamsfield. The last leaseholder there, Rusty Morley, had the osmiridium licence, and he also used to get a bit of gold. He would often get sapphires in his sluices and used to toss them in the creek with the rest of the chromite, zircons, topaz, and other assorted heavies. You can still find sapphires there, but the whole area has now been exempted from mining, and prospecting is no longer permitted. Sapphires also occurred with tin on the west coast, at Stanley River, with tin, gold and osmiridium at the Wilson River, and in some of the north-draining rivers on the north-west coast. These also carry a bit of gold. Perhaps it's a possibility. Another possibility is the Moina/Middlesex area. [/QUOTE]
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