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

6 күн бұрын

Thanks for the kind words :)

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

7 күн бұрын

It’s a great spot 😁

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

@Kurtleman

7 күн бұрын

You’re not wrong about that!

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

@Kurtleman

16 күн бұрын

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

very nice, good information too.

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

13 күн бұрын

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

@kanemurray3790

12 күн бұрын

@@Kurtleman yeah that'd be awesome

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

@Kurtleman

2 ай бұрын

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

@swazzia12

2 ай бұрын

@@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

Nice video man.

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

@Kurtleman

6 ай бұрын

Just say when ;)

Top stuff mate 👍

@Kurtleman

3 ай бұрын

Thanks mate

Interesting

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

6 ай бұрын

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

Awesome work mate!

@Kurtleman

6 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

@Quinny33

6 ай бұрын

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

@Kurtleman

6 ай бұрын

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

@Vegemite2k

6 ай бұрын

@@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

6 ай бұрын

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 😂

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

@Kurtleman

5 ай бұрын

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

Those red gems you are calling garnets are zircons :)

@Kurtleman

26 күн бұрын

Sure are :)

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

16 сағат бұрын

Porters?

@matthewcreagh7753

14 сағат бұрын

@@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

6 сағат бұрын

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

@matthewcreagh7753

2 сағат бұрын

@@Kurtleman no it’s not porter’s

@Kurtleman

Сағат бұрын

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

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

4 ай бұрын

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?

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

3 күн бұрын

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

@user-dj2gr1lg5r

3 күн бұрын

@@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)

Remember hydraulic equivelence theory when looking for a gravel layer.

@Kurtleman

5 күн бұрын

That’s in the advanced lesson ;)

Can you please advise how to find?

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

@Kurtleman

6 ай бұрын

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!

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 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

@@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 😁

Would love to go for a hunt with you one time

@Kurtleman

6 ай бұрын

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

@marissashackelford5859

6 ай бұрын

Me too!

@marissashackelford5859

6 ай бұрын

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!

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

@Kurtleman

6 ай бұрын

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

@DennisC-zc2yi

4 ай бұрын

They are worth nothing if they aren't transparent

Could anyone tell me exactly were is this spot is

@Kurtleman

9 күн бұрын

I added a google maps link to the description for you

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

@sboydrocks9412

6 ай бұрын

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

6 ай бұрын

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

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 ай бұрын

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 👌🏽