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Fossicking around my local area.... Newcastle NSW

Caves beach: Red jasper, green jasper, agate, chalcedony

Merewether and surrounding beaches newcastle NSW: petrified wood, agate, red jasper, pink, yellow and orange agates

Have tried polishing a few of the beach stones with not much luck, still new and learning.
 
Diamonds from alluvial deposits near Wellington, New South Wales.

Geological setting of eastern Australian

Diamonds

Diamonds are known from the entire length of the
eastern Australian continent, from north
Queensland south through New South Wales
and Victoria to Tasmania (Fig. 1). They occur in
alluvium and in buried alluvium beneath Tertiary
basalt flows, show evidence of alluvial reworking,
and are not associated with any of the conventional
diamond indicator minerals such as chrome
spinel, ilmenite, chrome-pyrope garnet and
microdiamonds.
 
Metallic and Industrial Deposits
102688 - Lower Mookerawa Alluvials
(Lower Mookerawa Alluvials, Muckerwa Creek)
Coords: -32.767092,149.166972
Mga_coordsys: MGA_55S
Mga_north: 6372454
Mga_east: 702980
Loc_method: 50K
Accuracy: 200
Grid_loc: Centre of worked area
Major_comm: Au
Size_code: SML
Production: :0t estimated production for 0.021959t Au
Comm_type: METMIN
F_prefix: EU
F_no: 0191
Met_prefix: DUBBO
Met_no: 0829
Hist_map: DU0208
Geo_province: Lachlan Orogen
Metal_dist: Stuart Town
Op_status: ceased
Op_method: alluvial workings
Lga: Wellington
Locality: 9km NE of Stuart Town, County; Wellington, Parish; Burranong, Muckerwa, Walters,
Depth: 21.00
Work_desc: Large scale dredging and sluicing.
Msn_age: Cenozoic
Sum_desc: Dredging and sluicing operations at the junction of Muckerawa Creek and Macquarie River. The wash was 9-21m thick.
Compiler: JT Pienmunne 1995
Last_update: 1996-09-25
Occur_size: Small
Update_hist: migrated PM Downes 25/9/1996, Other classification RP McEvilly & PM Downes Sept 03
Notes: Mookerawa Gold Mining Co., Macquarie River Gold Mining Co., Royal Jubilee Sluicing Co. and New Macquarie River Sydicate Gold Minig Co. all held leases at he junction of Muckerawa Creek and Macquarie River. There is a vague reference to diamond at "mouth of Muckerwa Creek".
Major_source: publication
Commodities
Au MAJOR
diamond - gem MINOR
Current Resource Estimates

:eek: ........ ;) Now you know where they are finding them will be the hard part. :D
 
MINERALS of NSW by Archibald Liversidge



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nucopia said:
Bahahaha
The wash was 9-21 metres !!!
I don't think they will let me dig that far down on the park :D
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No probably not, though I'd still keep a lookout for any Diamonds when you're panning or highbanking there, you just never know. :)
 
Diamond locations of NSW with map.

PDF free download
http://www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/237817/Diamond.pdf

New South Wales Occurrences

There are over 120 known diamond occurrences in
New South Wales, several of which have significant
recorded production (Ray et al. 2003; Temby 2004)
(Figure 7). Until the discovery and mining of the
Argyle deposit, New South Wales had the largest
recorded diamond production in Australia. Production
was entirely from alluvial deposits in the late 1800s
and early 1900s. Most of this historical production was
from deep leads in the Copeton and Bingara areas in
New England (recorded production of about 170000
carats and 35000 carats, respectively) for which
no hard-rock sources have been identified. Further
production was associated with gold dredging in the
Macquarie River (4000 carats), from deep leads in the
Cudgegong area (2000 carats), and minor production
from a number of other localities throughout the
eastern highlands. It has been estimated that actual
total production may have exceeded 500000 carats.
With other occurrences stretching from far north
Queensland to Victoria, the recorded occurrences form
the eastern Australian diamond province which is over
3000 km long

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In the beginning of mining in aus the prospectors found nice stones that could not be diamonds because they smashed when hit with a hammer on an anvil.. not hard anough to be diamonds they said....they inlayed their pick handles with the good stones and only took the gold from their wash.. the rest went back into the wash and are still there today.. ;)
 
And I think the whereabouts of where they dumped the heavys from their sluices may be a great find because the diamonds will be in the spoils... :p
 
kawman said:
And I think the whereabouts of where they dumped the heavys from their sluices may be a great find because the diamonds will be in the spoils... :p
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Mate if you can find where they ended a ground sluice race. Or had the long toms setup man oh man your on the money then. And that is why i research the old files and so on. J.
 
research gets you close.. prospecting will get you there in the end if you are lucky and find the spot/honey hole.. talking to very old people can be of great benefit any place you go.. they remember and only costs the time to say hello and a cup of tea.. :)
 
kawman said:
research gets you close.. prospecting will get you there in the end if you are lucky and find the spot/honey hole.. talking to very old people can be of great benefit any place you go.. they remember and only costs the time to say hello and a cup of tea.. :)
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