Frosty's Fossicking Frolics
Mount Hope Rock Crystal.
After leaving Hillston and travelling about 95kms northwards along the Kidman Way, we arrived at Mount Hope hotel, we turn right about 200meters
before the Pub (-32.84324, 145.87799), and continued for approx 1.5kms when we came across some diggings (-32.847545, 145.894668), after finding a spot to turn the mighty rig, we drove back to the first site and parked on the side of the road, luckily, the road was rock hard. I thought after the recent rains that it would have been soft. From the photos, you can see quite a few diggings, so I went over to one and continued digging, after one hour and 20 minutes of digging. The result was the following: My back is rooted, Marg has a numb bum, ohh yes, we found some rock crystal, I think the biggest was about the size of my thumb(I have a big thumb). We haven't taken any photos of the crystals yet, because we haven't cleaned them.
Mount Hope - Rock crystal fossicking area.
Mount Hope - Rock crystal fossicking area.
Mount Hope - Rock crystal fossicking area.
Marg the fossicker.
Mount Hope - Our rig, if you didn't know.
Rock Crystal area.
The location is -32.847545 145.894668