This is the beginning of a new adventure: the ultimate goal is setting up a small jade mine in the New England area of NSW. A collegue at work is the driving force for this project - he has been a successful opal miner at Lightening Ridge and has been keen to source other semi-precious to precious stones. So with a bit of good quality geology research we came up with a mention of a jade occurrence near Tamworth that did not appear to have been ever followed up........so off we went to have a bit of a look.........
......................and we found something!
and it looks good, doesn't it?
This was made by a carver in Lightening Ridge from a small block about 3cm long by 2cm by 2cm. Quite a small piece that she has cleverly used to its best!
(Still a very long way to go to really have the mine happening though, but it is good to dream)
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