Low tide after a coastal storm or king tide is when the local lapidary clubs have learnt to go target redcliffe beach for agate. You have to go early early morning if you want to beat the lapidary clubs after a storm, but it seems to be the best time to go. Tne storm swells seem to dislodge more agates from the reef and push already loose specimens to shore. A friend of mine has found some massive ones larger than cricketballs but he found them around the reefs while spearfishing, the largest ones never seem to make it to shore. The silt in the bay in recent years is making it alot harder to find the agates now

Mate fantastic fish wild trout ? If so that thing is a monster for our creeks were are you anyway ? Area I mean

What you can do with this things ???

Thanks great presentation. I know what it is now.

Thanks for this video. I found a 30ct gemstone out at Mt Surprise years ago, never completely knew if it was Quartz or Topaz. This video helped, as it has striations running down the sides, not across!

So I guess I won't need my seatless chaps to go fossicking then 😂😂😂.. sorry... that was a bit cheeky... LoL... I'll stop now😊.... Happy gem hunting...

Thank you ❤

Thanks so much for this video, it has really helped me in my fossicking efforts at Redcliffe. Does it take longer to tumble them to remove the outer layer? Thanks in advance for your reply 😊

Great info. Thanks

I have this stone

Any chance you could recommend somewhere to go for sapphires or blue topaz or diamond around south east qld where you can get a 4x4 close to where you would be working? I use a walker or when it's bad a wheelchair.

What if it’s worn smooth by a stream how do you tell

best explanation on the net! 👌🏻💎 3:34 - 😂 great humour too!

Thanks for saying that re the national parks ❤

Excellent! Thank you sir

Thanks for the video….question…have you ever heard of any gemstones around the Bundaberg area? Thanks mate.

I have Topaz. A little. Clear and bigguer and perfet. Thanks You for this video.. i don't know that i have Topaz.. but now i know.. i have one kg of Topaz.. forget me i don't speak inglis.

Can you please help me identify these gems finding them on an island.... Thanks

I have this stone

Absolute fantastic video. Everything I needed. Thank youuuu

Super helpful!

Which stone this and how much this stone?

i normally pan for gold but i love gems went to creek way out bush the section i panned was quite sandy but i was getting big spinel. Think i need to get some sieves and go back out there i know people in the 90's found diamond there. Is there a certain type of rock that shapphires form in ?

Do synthetic stones have the same hardness and specific gravity compared to natural ones of same type ?

I wish Torrington was still like that it’s dead now u don’t see anyone out in the bush u would be Lucky to get to some spots it’s over grown and trees down everywhere and it’s illegal to fossick out there now and it’s just turned to shit since National park owns it now when State Forest use to own it u could do any thing u wanted and they looked after the place it’s so bad now I got out the a week ago and had a dig and look around got some nice Topaz and smokies and a few Emeralds didn’t see one person out there we had to make our own track most of the time because of the growth and trees

Very good stone 👌👌💍

have you ever checked out the goldmines in that area

If anyone find this Quartz Placer please contact me

I’m looking for Quartz Placer

uppercuts self....i used to was along there every morning for months and never thought to look for them!!! well there you go, you just never know what treasures are in your own backyard!!!!

Thanks!

I have a confusing piece. Clear, colorless crystal with very flat sides and diamond shaped fractures. Halite, quartz, or topaz?

We have a lot of topaz here in Africa. Don't even know what to do with that.

We’ve only done the bucket wash fossicking.. looking forward for mining in its natural ground..

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I really liked this video and it has made total sense for my deciding if it's topaz or quartz.. I wonder if there's size limit you should expect to find topaz in because my piece is about "centre of the palm size", 5cm x 3cm x1.5cm. It is bigger than the ones in your video and the raw topaz I've seen online. Would this rule it out? My stone is golden ish 'stained' on the outside but totally clear, water-clear inside, with some internal faces you can see running through it. I've ruled out calcite because the angles and things are much more fluoritey. Anyway thanks for any thoughts!

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No Tipas Topas

Make a miller table for ya fines. They'll catch flour gold np.

Paschendale?

4 foot down hey? On a mining lease?

Hydraulic equivalence

The largest white topaz you shown, about how much would you say that is worth

Where can I harvest black topaz??????

I like this video.. thank you 👍

Very helpful and GREAT for getting straight to the point and easy to follow.

Netiral rock crystal color less certificate what is this sir ji

Very nice. How did that spot turn out?

Thank You 😊

i found a heavy brick with a shovel turn out to be a glassy monoclinic rock