THE BOTTOM END, YARROW CREEK
NEAR GLEN INNES NSW AUSTRALIA
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| Working the crack |
This stretch of the creek begins with a long pool,
followed by a short section of rocky ground before the creek passes through
another pool. After this there are more rocks and pools with some places where
the creek vanishes beneath the rocks, before you come to the boundary fence.
The first pool looks deep but that’s about all I
know about it. The first rocky section has been well fossicked but
possibilities remain for new ground on the left bank. The landowner told me
once that, years ago, the creek had been dammed in a dry season at the end of
the first pool before the second pool had been pumped out. No doubt some good
finds were made. You could hardly fail in a place like that. Not knowing
about that event, I tried some of the more obvious spots and scored some
cutters. One was a sapphire piece of
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| The lower end of the first pool |
around 10 carats which I told Sue was
tourmaline until I took it up to her with the next sieve. As it turned out, one
end was very dark, the rest was blue. I’ve been holding off writing this blog
entry as I wanted to include a photograph of it. Sorry, I must have sold it
with some other blues before we moved away from Glen Innes.
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| Minerama 2010 finds |
Most of our fossicking here happened around 2002-3
and I have no photos of finds from that time. Probably our best find came immediately
after Minerama in March 2010. A few good finds were made on the Monday trip
just below the end of the first pool. Two weeks later I worked on a crack which
crossed the creek, using a yabby pump to get all I could out of it. The first
finds included some good clear quartz (no fossicker I know throws that back
again) so I was confident that there were better things to follow. The photo
shows that I wasn’t disappointed. The following week produced some more, but
that was it for that particular crack. No doubt there is more to come.
See the Blog entries for The Blockup and the Old Mine for more information.
My You Tube video on The Bottom End may be found here .
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| Good finds from the crack described above (one day's work) |
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