(Achanarras Quarry has plenty to look through) - 2003

Patience is require at this quarry, it is not as productive as it used to be due to years of over-collecting. There are now limits on the number of specimens you can collect. The difficult part is there are only two thin zones in many meters of the Achanarras beds that contain fish, the difficulty is trying to find the correct colour, there are many different coloured slate slabs here. Productivity is mainly based on the accuracy of identiflying the correct type of slabs to split (see What to find page).

There are two main areas of the quarry, the area of spoil around the water and the area behind the back of the quarry. If possible, try to turn material over as much as possible since they have a better chance of being missed or hidden from past collectors. The back of the quarry gives more freedom to move slabs around, but please take extreme care on these steep slopes.