Fossicking Natural Sapphires in NSW Australia | Black Springs

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What's going on guys!? My name's Kurt but my friends call me Kurtle!
Today I’m at Sapphire Bend in East Australia, digging for sapphires. hoping to find some natural Australian sapphires, zircons, quartz and a possible chance at gold or diamonds.
Location: maps.app.goo.gl/tHm5FBNQdFhCp...
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@mikozaire58 29 дней назад

Love the skillls shown in finding the right spot to get the sapphires. I am also impressed with your entrepreneurial pay dirt offering. Glad I found you tonight - Subscribed

@Kurtleman 28 дней назад

Thanks for the kind words :)

@lucidotw 21 день назад

Hey bro I just want to say to please keep doing these vids (without burning yourself out) I love them

@Kurtleman 20 дней назад

I’ll do my best! Hard to find time around my PhD 😅

@Delta088 11 дней назад

Awesome Kurtle keep it mate ..Loving your vids..Been many years since I have been there.Good content mate.

@juliedawes 29 дней назад

Absolutely awesome! Especially as it's an area only a few hours away and it's been year's since I have been there.

@Kurtleman 29 дней назад

It’s a great spot 😁

@tonysfossickingadventure.8124 2 месяца назад

very nice, good information too.

@kanemurray3790 Месяц назад

I need to try again at sapphire bend. Took the kids to porters retreat 12 months ago with no luck, also no idea what I was doing. This has helped a lot mate

@Kurtleman Месяц назад

Good luck! I’ve never had much luck there either but maybe I should do a video on Porter’s

@kanemurray3790 Месяц назад

@@Kurtleman yeah that'd be awesome

@matthewcreagh7753 23 дня назад

When I was young my dad would take me out to blacksprings and pan in the river around there and get lots of gems.

@Kurtleman 23 дня назад

Porters?

@matthewcreagh7753 23 дня назад

@@Kurtleman I’ll have to ask my old man where it was. I just remember it wasn’t far from the road and there was a good bend in the river on the edge of the forest.

@Kurtleman 22 дня назад

If it’s a secret spot no pressure but I’d love to know if it’s Porter’s!

@matthewcreagh7753 22 дня назад

@@Kurtleman no it’s not porter’s

@Kurtleman 22 дня назад

Very nice 👌🏽 always good to have your own little spot

@swazzia12 3 месяца назад

Hi kurtle , good to see you are still fossicking. Enjoy your videos .

@Kurtleman 3 месяца назад

Thanks mate - I’d love to more it’s just finding the time!

@swazzia12 3 месяца назад

@@Kurtleman It is time , in a few weeks I’m heading up through nsw and into Queensland to do some fossicking for a couple of weeks. Just taking time out and going to do it . I’ve never been Saphires hunting before , looks great , going to hunt for Saphires and opals , and live out of my swag 😊😜 I don’t mind the dirt . If you like your music check out my band Merc & The Semiautos , The album title The Semiautos “ The Collection Part 1 “ And also I have the band The Semiautos with the 1967 The Lost recordings, album which is mainly raw and uncut recorded live. And songs such as To my best friend and Friday Night etc , some new music for you guys to listen to , if you like it , to follow and like would be great , Thanks , Keep digging its a fantastic hobby

@neilstleon6251 4 месяца назад

Top stuff mate 👍

@Kurtleman 4 месяца назад

Thanks mate

@BonesFPV 4 месяца назад

Nice video man.

@edwardburnett6779 7 месяцев назад

So good, I really want to do this again man! 🤙

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

Just say when ;)

@maxwellt.v.5563 Месяц назад

Love it out there but u gotta work for those sapphires especially in winter🤣

@Kurtleman 29 дней назад

You’re not wrong about that!

@zackeryjames-ej2iz 7 месяцев назад

Interesting

@santomuro 10 дней назад

Hey mate! Just found your channel. I'm from Wagga, and the region around Tumbarumba has some good places for fossicking/rockhounding. Sapphires and rubies apparently. You earned my subscription, keep it up man!

@Kurtleman 9 дней назад

Thanks mate! I lived in Leeton for a year - not too far away. I haven’t looked out that way yet for fossicking though. Maybe I’ll make a trip one day!

@jeffholmes1362 7 месяцев назад

Nice Kurtle. Paydirt bags in time for Christmas, excellent idea, although you can’t send them everywhere, Tassie blocks paydirt from entering the state. Not sure they have an issue with the dirt, just don’t like fun coming in 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤪

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

Good to know! I wasn’t aware… I guess I could sieve it live for them then post the sapphires 😂

@Vegemite2k 7 месяцев назад

Awesome work mate!

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

Thanks 😊

@Quinny33 7 месяцев назад

Thanks.Im actually heading there this weekend with my dogs bloody godsend seeing this clip.Random 🐕 Dogs.Eeew

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

@@Quinny33they were pig hunting - the owners came and picked them up. Couple young blokes in a Ute

@Vegemite2k 7 месяцев назад

@@Kurtleman I understand the hesitation when they ran up, but pig dogs should be trained well enough 😁 coupla mates while digging is always good 😂👌

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

Yeah my sisters ex partner had a few and I love dogs I just didn’t want to meet them at eye level when they came running at me 😂

@TheGuruTalk 6 месяцев назад

Good find, I came there but couldn’t find the public place for fossicking 🙁

@Kurtleman 6 месяцев назад

Not a problem: maps.app.goo.gl/YMcMXSy7R6jb4R6s9?g_st=ic

@nfi2nfi2 10 дней назад

Sapphire dirt bucket now for sale 😂😂😂😂

@rodneyberrell Месяц назад

Those red gems you are calling garnets are zircons :)

@Kurtleman Месяц назад

Sure are :)

@howiegrapek1488 5 месяцев назад

So, where ya been these past few years. I've enjoyed your underwater hunting videos and had a few questions. Sad, we don't have these kind of rock hounding much this in the states (there is some, but not near where I live), I'm in south Florida, but have plenty of beaches to hunt on.

@Kurtleman 5 месяцев назад

Honestly It’s just hard to get the time to do it! I’ve bought and moved into a house and I am in the process of doing a PhD. But I always hope to do more! Do you guys have fossils there or am I thinking of somewhere else? Sure thing what’s your questions?

@fleaniswerkhardt4647 Месяц назад

The video description says " Today I’m at Sapphire Bend in South West Australia, "

@Kurtleman Месяц назад

Thanks for picking up the typo! I must confess I spell checked with chat GPT and it must have changed it a bit 🤦🏼‍♂️

@TheGuruTalk 6 месяцев назад

Can you please advise how to find?

@geoffgeoff143 28 дней назад

Remember hydraulic equivelence theory when looking for a gravel layer.

@Kurtleman 28 дней назад

That’s in the advanced lesson ;)

@user-kf5fl1jn3q 7 месяцев назад

Hello just wondering if any of the ones you found can be cut is there a size limit to what can be cut

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

Hi Rebekah - I’m not very knowledgeable about the whole cutting process but I think you lose about half of the carat weight. So however small you are able to cut something I’m assuming you could cut 😂 I’m sure someone on here might be able to chime in who has more experience!

@user-dj2gr1lg5r 26 дней назад

God those sapphires look beautiful greetings from northwestern Canada i have never found any here but some really nice garnets tho there are sapphires here but as i said never found any i hope to get another good garnet haul this year but currently the river i live close by and pan mostly is pretty high and all my nice bedrock and gravel is underwater. But very good video i enjoyed and also subscribed

@Kurtleman 25 дней назад

I would absolutely love to fossick in Canada one day! Good luck on the Saphs :)

@user-dj2gr1lg5r 25 дней назад

@@Kurtleman thank you it is beautiful here I would also love to go to Australia/Tasmania one day but I don't like big ass poisonous bugs I like the cold as well so... lol. But if I don't get any this year oh well I'ma keep my eye out for diamonds tho because they can be found in the area of where I live (ish)

@downunderdandiving3357 7 месяцев назад

Would love to go for a hunt with you one time

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

Anytime mate let me know :) did I give you my number at Penrith?

@marissashackelford5859 7 месяцев назад

Me too!

@marissashackelford5859 7 месяцев назад

I went to this exact spot and didn’t find anything like this. Granted I have no idea what I’m doing though. I’d love to go with someone who can teach me what to do!

@pch3339 3 дня назад

Also any chance of paydirt with gold or emerald or ruby in them, coming up in the near future?

@Kurtleman 3 дня назад

Ruby’s are red sapphires so there’s a chance of those and there is also a chance for some tiny gold but nothing substantial. Emeralds are up in QLD, I might get there one day but have no near plans too… If you want gold pay dirt check out this one: www.detect-ed.com/products/turbopan-300?_pos=2&_sid=d3e7a827a&_ss=r I’ve never tried it personally but I trust Detect-Ed and the same discount code: KURT applies

@user-we8dw1tw8x 4 месяца назад

Hi mate love your videos, im new to fossicking, i just dont know what im looking for, what colours do saphire come im from Victoria

@Kurtleman 4 месяца назад

Hey mate - sapphires come in all colours! Sapphires are the mineral ‘corundum’ which is a form of aluminium silicon oxide and the colour comes from impurities. Rubys are also corundum but they are classed as a ruby when they have a particular range of red in them. Too pink and they are just a pink sapphire!

@fishmut 3 месяца назад

@@Kurtleman…g,day mate , I,m In the central west NSW , I do a bit of prospecting for gold , I have been to black springs and got some sapphires and zircons but no where near the amount as you did , I used a rocker box I made and used it on the Macquarie river , I pulled a small ruby from the rocker box when I cleaned it up going back about 6 years ago , now there is camping in the area and where I used to go gets hammered by fossicking groups who go there , I have learnt to keep my mouth shut on places where I find gold especially because others will clean your spots out and tell others and ruin your prospecting hopes , Safires though is a lot harder for people to do because the going is a lot harder I find , happy prospecting and saffire hunting ,it’s all great fun. 👍

@Kurtleman 3 месяца назад

@@fishmut Thanks mate - appreciate the comments! I can’t believe you found a ruby! What did it weigh in at? I haven’t done much prospecting but I’d love to do more! Maybe I’ll see you out there one day 😁

@Mark-us7de Месяц назад

Could anyone tell me exactly were is this spot is

@Kurtleman Месяц назад

I added a google maps link to the description for you

@itsoktoberight4431 7 месяцев назад

Hey could you mention the rough value of the stones you get in future videos?

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

They’re not easy to value as rough but I can try next time to give a ball park :)

@DennisC-zc2yi 4 месяца назад

They are worth nothing if they aren't transparent

@pch3339 3 дня назад

What is the name of the gem weighing device/machine? Where can these be purchased from? Great vid btw :)

@Kurtleman 3 дня назад

I’d actually recommend these - that scale set broke very quickly: www.detect-ed.com/products/detect-ed-treasure-scales?_pos=1&_sid=15c1c22d8&_ss=r You can use the discount code KURT at checkout for a small discount :)

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

I called them garnets throughout but I actually think they are Zircons! 🤔😅

@sboydrocks9412 7 месяцев назад

That what I was thinking too. We got zircons with sapphires when we stayed in Glen Innes 20+ years ago and did. Day trips

@Kurtleman 7 месяцев назад

@sboydrocks9412 it’s on my list to go there but I need to do some research on where to go!

@hybridgoth 3 месяца назад

As much as i enjoy your videos and admire your entrepreneurial attitude, it should be remembered that there are strict limits with respect to material taken, these include a 10kg limit for gem bearing material containing gold or gemstones within a 48hr period, this is a per person limit, so, if you round up a few tagalongs to accompany you, you can carry a bit more home. Not intending to cause you any strife, just to err on the side of caution, if you exceed the limits, it's probably a good idea not to publish evidence of doing so. The guidelines were set as they are to allow everyone the opportunity to enjoy the pursuit for years to come rather than to encourage financial exploitation.

@Kurtleman 3 месяца назад

I did learn this in retrospect! But it was also lucky as I was so tired I only ended up taking what you saw in the end of the video home! So in all it would have been less than 20kg for myself and my partner. I’d definitely have been a lot more stressed if I’d had accidentally gone over the limit! That’s never my intention 👌🏽