Diamonds anyone?

 Cheers for the info Guys im going to do a bit more reserch on the subject.
 daimond park in Arkansas sounds like a good one for a day fossic, i was having a bit of a read last night about that. Some nice stones of good Quality have turned up. >
 thanks for the pics Hardluck, have a good weekend all
 

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Craters of the Moon was formed from basaltic magma. Metamorphic rock is what you would be scouring. Adams County is the only county in which diamonds have ever been reported. If I recall the story correctly an old prospector found a couple in his gold pan. No kimberlite pipes have ever been found. Odds are, they are the last remnants of a kimberlite pipe that has long since weathered away. Just gotta know what to look for. Crypto-vulcanism is just that... cryptic, but if you can assemble the pieces (which few people know how to do) you can be a very, very rich man.

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Hello goldnboy

In answer to your question, I know several. The stories I know of was in days when the alcohol flowed a little freely and the tales got bigger and bigger with each retelling.

The Simpson desert is a very deceptive desert, If you do not respect her terms she bite as any ravenous shark. Some parts of the Simpson is low desert hills with spinifex grass, low barren channel country dissipating into a series of sand ridges sculpture by the times of time.

People can die out there in a couple of hours. Temperature can soar during the day and plummet at night. If you stray from the Birdsville track and run out of water you are as good as dead. It is a very unforgiving place.

Most of my time there was further north on both sides near the Queensland NT border.

There is many stories of a lost gold reefs.

There is a tiny settlement 160km west of Mt Isa called Urandangie. In the 1930's an old man lived there called Albie Nye. In 1932 an old dogger (Dingo and wild Trapper for scalp bounty ) who was sick and dying came into the small settlement.

Albie look after this dying fellow and his camel team as long as he could. But it was clear the old dogger was dying.

He gave his camel team, camping gear to Albie, together with rich quartz specimens studded with gold. The dying man claimed he found a gold reef in the Toko ranges but gave vague directions due to his illness before dying. Albie spent the next two years searching for the location but never found the reef.

The Toko Ranges lies straddled across the NT and Queensland border in a region of folded and faulted sedimentary, volcanic and metamorphic rocks. Which are potentially metalliferous, Smaller silver lead seems have been found in the area but none of any commercial importance.

This legend is one of many stories of lost mines throughout the region.

Hardluck 

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Hi  Hardluck
 do you know of any stories of an old timer by the name of Don ?, he was in the Simpson and supposedly found some good gold with his donky , Donky died but don made it back out?
 His brother told me the storie of old don.  i think i read some such storie some years back but cant remember where.

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 the Story, about the man named Don. I came across earlier this year. An older gent who is my friends Grandad told me About his brother Don " a real hard as nails kind of guy, anyways I havnt got much more to go  on.  Just when i was told of this earlier" it sounded like  a story i had read some number of years back. The book was full of treasure tales from Australia. Id like to know the title... but cant remember exactly. Il checkup with Dons family i know here, and se if they can give up any more clues.
 

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