Fossicking for Sapphires in the Central QLD Gemfields!
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2023
- Lap of Australia Episode 3: Fossicking for Sapphires in the Central QLD Gemfields!
Join The Young Adventurer on this episode as we explore the Central QLD Gemfields fossicking for sapphires! Shoutout to Ellen for the head mount for the GoPro!
Learn how to sieve for gems!
Awesome thx 4 sharing 👍
My partner and I just came back from a trip to Emerald and the gemfields of Sapphire and Rubyvale . We learned how to fossick for Sapphires at the 'Bobby Dazzler' Mine' where you buy a bucket of 'wash' for $20 and they teach you how to sift , wash and pick out the Sapphires . We are getting old but had a great time and brought home a handful of small sapphires . Also bought some bags of wash to sift through at home . Now ready to fossick on our own ! Good luck and have a great adventure !
Awesome! I'm glad you enjoyed it, it is such a great skill to learn. Definitely lots of fun! I have more fun fossicking than most of my other hobbies :)
Good job. You have some nice gems !
Thank you! I had fun finding them!
It looks so beautiful there! Great description on how to look and sieve sapphire, yea you definitely need good ankles there , been looking forward to this video, thanks for sharing👍😁
Thank you! I was an awesome place that I will definitely go back to!
I have cut a number of Australian sapphires, both faceted and star sapphires. The small stones found on the smaller sieve would be too small to be cuttable, but ok for specimens. Also most star sapphires to be found in QLD are very dark and nearly opaque, so don't be too quick to toss 'em!.
Thank you for the info! I will keep more of them next time I head back there! :)
Great video. It has inspired me to get out there and have a go.
Thanks Greg! Good luck with it all, happy fossicking!
Nice video. Looks like a blast.
Thanks!
This is my first video and I really enjoyed it. Just Subscribed and gave you a 👍
Thank you!
very nice, my dad live at the Willows for 10 years, the sapphires he found was amazing, have you tried divining for sapphires?
No I haven't! How do you do that??
@theyoungadventurer5145 it's just 2 piece's of either brazing wire or fencing wire with a 90 degree bend for your hands on one end. To start with you use a Sapphire in each hand where the wires touch it. Walk across the ground until the wires cross over each other. The Sapphire will be under the cross.
Nice video. get one of those cheap diamond tester with led bars (diamond selector 2), so you can quickly test the stone in place and if its sapphire then the led lights up to orange and red bars. It works with ruby too.
Thanks for the info! Luckily in the area I was fossicking in, there are heaps of sapphires of green, yellow and blue!
I've faceted several sapphires from Australia and they were saturated with color. The smaller stones should be stunning.
Thank you! Such beauty lies within our soils
We recently went to the gem fest in sapphire and had a great time. Lots to see. What area did you search? We had a look at Glenalva but only found a few chips but had a good time doing it.
it is definitely a place you can spend weeks! I was in Tomahawk Creek fossicking area, quite remote and off-grid. Glad to hear you got some gems!
TO Slow,flip it over next time!!!Been there many times,good luck!
What area was this at im going to go out an have a go with my kids always wanted to do this
This was at tomahawk Creek near sapphire, in Queensland's central gem fields
What would you do with found Sapphires? Does they have any value?
The vast majority of these ones I found in this video hold no commercial value, and they're not large enough to facet. They could be user as really cool aquarium gravel! Haha
No millions of years only a few hundred to thousand years…..