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Yeah awesome sounds good! Cheers mate will be on the lookout for it. Yeah too bloody keen haha, lost my licence a year ago and been killing me not to get out digging, so just downsized everything and shoved it in a backpack and duffle bag... off back there tomorrow I'm taking a little folding...

I'm from Mildura, Victoria, so don't worry about geology in my area 🤣 minimum 3 hours travel to anything decent, so if I'm already going to catch a bus that far I don't mind travelling a but further for better areas, just gotta find places that I can get off a bus stop and hike in with my tools...

That makes sense, thanks mate! Does that also mean my old books are still accurate to a form of crystal in the area, just not correct crystal? Like stuff labelled ruby could just be red zircon or garnet even red agate? Or could they just be stuff like pyrites tricking the old blokes and no point...

Thanks Hawkear! Definitely a lesson for me! 🤣 dunno if I would've found anything without all the help from past and present threads here, but the most learning I did was definitely on the creek, Now I'm thinking I'm gonna have to catch a bus back down there with the shitty cheap sluice ive...

Thanks man! Was pretty chuffed when I saw that big chunk in the pan on my last day 🤣 definitely plan faceting my gemstones eventually, but definitely more interested in just stocking up the collection for a few years :)

Oh and the gold I've shown in the clean up there isn't quite all of it, I put maybe 1/4 of what I found in this little jar for my mate to play with, also has my second best picker and second best sapphire in it, as well as all my cons with the fine gold so I don't have to deal with it with...

Here's a rough clean up, put of the whole trip im stoked with the green and blue sapphire and the big chunky sapphire the most 😍 and definitely can't complain about my first ever gold take, tho spent all but the last day looking for a good spot 😅 the two big pickers weigh .04 and .06 :)

Cheers man was bloody hard work! And if there's anything I know how to find its gemstones, just the yellow stuff I'm new at, every single bucket was sieved through a 5mm crystal sieve and only found 2 in the sieve, one sapphire one decent zircon, the rest were under 5mm and were in the bottom of...

Cheers for all your tips legends!! Ended up only finding a good spot on the last day (always the bloody way isn't it), was a beautiful place and am keen to get down again asap, You were right about the hard to find a sizeable stone, only a couple that got caught in the 5mm sieve, one being a...

I did have a look at that post, and that list seems to be pretty much the exact same as the list in the second book I quoted earlier (how to find Australian gemstones by Derrick and Doug Stone), even says opals at Daylesford as well 😂

Seems to be crown land and all good, was worried because I saw houses in each direction 😂 tho i would love a house somewhere like that 😂

Cheers mate will look into it, quick google shows it seems VERY close to town, hopefully I can still have a dig there! Will for sure post updates when I come back :)

Nah no worries cheers mate! You've helped me out plenty already, I've been searching far and wide but seems minimal info on gems in the GT compared to elsewhere, guess they just always focused on the gold 😅

Thanks heaps mate! Kinda what I was thinking, been looking at old geology maps and am trying to pin point areas, I've found where the upper, middle and lower gold drifts are in Pliocene and associated with some mines, but would you know which of the three would be better to find gemstones in the...

Good to know, cheers mate! But did some more reading through a different 50 year old book and it says it’s wood opal in the gold drifts, how would I hunt the “gold drifts”? is it impossible without full shaft sinking, am I limited to just find mine tailings to work?