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toppster

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Agate Creek part 1
« on: August 20, 2013, 07:53:18 PM »
After returning from a week at agate creek ,Ill share some of the trip.
Having a good run from mt isa, I left at 5 am and arrived at 3.30 dogging the pigs and  on the way, plenty of them around 50km from Normanton.On arrival my Friend John from the sunny coast was already set up and we had an early night ready for a big day at black soil creek area the next morning.Day 1 we headed up to the fridge for a look around ,it took a while to find any shallow stone as the area has been dug well but eventally I found a patch that was good and we were on to a few. Below is a pic of the robertson river which you cross about 14km from the fossicking area{for those who havent been}

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2013, 07:56:08 PM »
After digging quarter of a bucket in less than an hour I thought I was on a good thing but I was still chasing that big one.Alot of the agate we were digging was a flat shape like this one

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2013, 08:10:47 PM »
After having some lunch and the patch producing only bits and pieces I decided
Id give it another square meter then go for a look elsewhere,two scratches later bingo the agate of the day for me popped out.

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2013, 08:13:04 PM »
the hole near the end of the day the agate was hard to tell apart from the basalt so low light isnt recomended

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2013, 08:41:18 PM »
Toppster, love the photos and the story so far.  Have wanted to get there since I was a teenager, so we're talking about a loooong time. I really hope to get up there in the next couple of years now we have the vehicle to do it in.  My wife hasn't been through the Savannah Way yet either and I know she'll love it there. 

Looking at what you've pulled out I may have to get your assistance when I do get there.

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2013, 09:10:24 PM »
Toppster looks like you had a good time.  From what I can see in your pics and a couple of friends that visited Agate Ck for the first time in July the area still looks like it is in drought with little rain this winter.  Never seen such a lack of water in the times I have been up.

Looking forward to the rest of your report.  :)
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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2013, 10:58:17 PM »
Like you Bucket, I've wanted to get to Agate Creek since I was a teenager (a few decades ago now). Still a few years off unfortunately (if I ever get there!)

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2013, 01:59:37 AM »
There wasn't a wet up here last season at all, some towns in have been trucking in water for residents for months as their water supplies have run dry :o
See what happens this Wet....   You may be able to fossick the bottom of waterholes that haven't been dry for a long time next year ;D

Cheers
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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2013, 10:37:11 AM »
Yes its the dryest ive seen it,back to the story.The large agate I found is in the pic below fresh off the saw.I didnt se any dogs in the area but I did find an agate dogy doo-doo.

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2013, 10:42:44 AM »
After a hot afternoon we headed back and decided to dig the creek bank and have a look at black soil flat in the morning.Several hours of hard digging in the bank produced littlt ecept for the large piece in the pic.So off we went to the flat up the road.On entering the area I coundnt believe how much soil had moved from the wet a few years ago as there were not many rocks visible then.heres a pic of the flat now.

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2013, 10:46:00 AM »
We specked and had a scratch around till lunch time as the temps were getting to 34 we headed back to camp.heres some of the typical finds here ,mostly small stuff for the tumbler.

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2013, 01:02:32 PM »
Vievers Flat from your pic looks the same as it did last year and the year before that.
Remember it had more soil in 2000.  While my car was parked there it was licked by the cattle.
Had kiss marks all around it.  :)
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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2013, 01:40:33 PM »
Looks like you'e had a fantastic time Topster. I think we might need to have a reverse Tour of Confusion for us southerners  8)
Baaa humbug, not enough fossicking time!

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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2013, 03:16:58 PM »
 Mind boggles :o at a team of Southerners ;) touring the gemfields in reverse Jamo  as their driving skills seem doubtful at best :P in forward gears!             beers Ted
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Re: Agate Creek part 1
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2013, 04:48:28 PM »
What's wrong with touring Agate Creek on a reverse tour ( what ever that is, please explain Jamo) I have wonderful ideas for next season around there. Us southerners can drive any direction.  ;)  beers
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