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  2. Fossickers Way - Wikipedia

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    Fossickers Way is a series of country roads located in the Northern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia that form a 379-kilometre (235 mi) [1] scenic and tourist drive.

  3. Lightning Ridge, New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    Lightning Ridge is an important paleontological site, with opalised fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period, around 100 million years ago, deriving from the Griman Creek Formation. The site is especially important as a source of fossils of ancient mammals , which, at that time, were small creatures living in a world dominated by dinosaurs .

  4. Fossicking - Wikipedia

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    Fossicking can be done in remote locations with no facilities, or can be a part of a guided tour. Several small businesses in Australia have set up for the purpose of introducing new people to the activity or providing facilities for fossickers near the areas being searched.

  5. Torrington, New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    Mining has given way to fossicking and tourism and now visitors enjoy the spectacular scenery of rocky granite outcrops, steep gorges, gently flowing streams as well as fossicking for topaz, quartz and the many minerals found in the area. Unfortunately the last general store and the caravan park were closed some years ago.

  6. State Forests of New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    Forestry Corporation manages environmental conservation, community access, tourism, fire, land management and timber production within the state forests of NSW. [1] Approximately 225,000 hectares (560,000 acres) of NSW State Forests are softwood timber plantations, and just under 35,000 hectares (86,000 acres) are hardwood timber plantations. [1]

  7. Adelong Falls Gold Workings - Wikipedia

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    The Adelong Falls Gold Workings is a heritage-listed former gold processing site and now picnic reserve at Adelong, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.It was designed and built in 1860 by David Wilson and William Ritchie.

  8. Service NSW - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The agency is the single point of contact point for a number of New South Wales government agencies including Transport for NSW, Fair Trading NSW and Births, Deaths and Marriages, and provides services such as the application for licences and permits, registration of births and payment of fines. [3]

  9. Prospecting - Wikipedia

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    It is also known as fossicking. Traditionally prospecting relied on direct observation of mineralization in rock outcrops or in sediments. Modern prospecting also includes the use of geologic, geophysical, and geochemical tools to search for anomalies which can narrow the search area. Once an anomaly has been identified and interpreted to be a ...