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  1. RockRat

    What Songs, Music, Musicians or Bands Do You Like

    https://youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY
  2. RockRat

    What Songs, Music, Musicians or Bands Do You Like

    https://youtu.be/cK5aT07gOis
  3. RockRat

    R.I.P. - Passing of Famous/Notable Persons

    Best of the best. RIP :flowers: The James Bond toilet paper was a worry, one slip and you had a Gold Finger. :P
  4. RockRat

    7.62marksman ( ken )

    First thing i think of when i hear army rations is Constipation, wouldn't wish that on you Goody, hope there better now. :(
  5. RockRat

    FOR SALE Lapidary Thingies

    :Y:
  6. RockRat

    FOR SALE Lapidary Thingies

    sent you a message 7.62
  7. RockRat

    What Songs, Music, Musicians or Bands Do You Like

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVjToYOjbM
  8. RockRat

    Stannifer and Tingha Plateau Conservation Area Now Closed

    There are people working on this closure at Stannifer, will post when i hear something, blind leading the blind from what has happened. Have been out there to some, (not all) popular spots and can't see any reason for closures. Still families there having a fossick with their kids. All the times...
  9. RockRat

    Black lighting for Opals

    great vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N59C_wGtkNw&feature=emb_logo
  10. RockRat

    Spider bite

    Red-Back spiders - highly venomous - can be deadly Area of distribution: Australia-wide. Venom toxicity: The Red-Back spider can inflict a painful bite which can be fatal, especially to the young and elderly. An effective anti-venom was developed in 1956. About 250 people receive the...
  11. RockRat

    i don't know dwt.

    https://crystal-information.com/encyclopedia/rainbow-quartz-properties-and-meaning/
  12. RockRat

    i don't know dwt.

    I'd say it's quartz with internal fractures which creates those colors when the sun hits it at the right angle, they pop up occasionally at stannifer. good find :Y:
  13. RockRat

    Today I BOUGHT

    Just watched a demo on the saw, has got me excited :inlove: thanks for posting, guess they rig it out for our triclecity .
  14. RockRat

    Recent tumble

    Recent tumble of Quartz jelly bean crystals from Stannifer, done in a VIBRATORY ROCK TUMBLER using Kaolin powder and aluminium oxide 14,000 polish and water. No soap or borax or ceramic media used, as stones were of mixed sizes no larger than a about 5x2 cm. The Kaolin powder was used to make...
  15. RockRat

    What Songs, Music, Musicians or Bands Do You Like

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUrhhbWIyVE Great suspension
  16. RockRat

    Miniture gold balls in ironstone and quartz

    gday digger, Nature throws a lot of curved balls, i too crushed samples once and found minute balls in my dolly pot, at that time i put it down to contamination from a RC drill hole i was near. There are two processes by which gold spheres may have formed: crystallization of droplets from a...
  17. RockRat

    Miniture gold balls in ironstone and quartz

    I had a barker mill, semi autogenous, to crush my ore and the gold came out as balls because of the action of the mill.
  18. RockRat

    How is this... Queensland (Qld) fine

    Did you have this ? This is for fossicking allowable QLD State Forests. Title: Description: Individual 1 year fossicking licence Agency: Natural Resources and Mines Reference: FOSILY Amount Ex GST: $53.10 GST: $0.00 Total Amount: $53.10 Total (excl. GST): $53.10 Total GST amount paid...
  19. RockRat

    40 years on the job.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_KAXhK1rJA Great achievement Ramjet :Y:
  20. RockRat

    Head in a hole, success.

    Been out and about, following a trail of quartz fragments for the past month and finally found there home, looks a bit like candle quartz, small clusters are pretty unique, lots of twins multi crystals, only a small vug unfortunately, very happy with the haul. :pickshovel: :gemstone:
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