Thursday
11 July 2019 – 267 903
After
packing down we continued east toward Emerald. On our way we had to pull over
to allow some wide loads of mining machinery parts through. We also stopped at a lookout as we crossed
the mountains.
We
turned north at Anakie, to Rubyvale. We
are staying the night at Gemseekers Caravan Park – great service and lovely
caravan park.
We
spent the afternoon at Bobby Dazzler, where we did a fossicking trail boot
camp.
A guide took us along a nearby
creek bed and explained that sapphires accumulate in the outer bend of creeks,
below the moist layer. We got to dig up
our own buckets of wash from the creek bed.
The tour guide showed us a unique wooden construction that was lined
with logs and used as a base for a machine to pass material across the creek
for processing. We then took our material
back to the building and were shown how to sieve, wash and sort it. I found lots of little sapphires and a few
zircons, Drew found several medium sized sapphires and Hayden found several
small ones and one sixteen carat sapphire!
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