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Article about gold prospecting in Central Otago
diggerjoe  
Posted : Friday, 2 March 2012 8:36:06 PM(UTC)
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An interesting ODT article about some gold prospectors about 4 years ago.

http://www.odt.co.nz/the...old-hills-only-dedicated
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jafa  
Posted : Friday, 2 March 2012 9:05:07 PM(UTC)
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Together with a television film crew, the trio got into trouble with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust for disturbing a gold site without trust approval.

They removed a bottle from the extensive gold workings

Historic place,s trust have a lot to answer for they have far to much power for my liking....its no wonder most mining companys are rich multinationals....who could be botherd spending thousands on permits and have to answer to F#@kwits like historic places trust.....its people like them that stop more or opening up fossicking area,s:(
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Lammerlaw  
Posted : Friday, 2 March 2012 9:26:46 PM(UTC)
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Interesting - I remember reading this when it was current news - I had a smile where it says that "Theres money in Gold - of course there is - but it takes a lot of money to get it these days" - on that account I beg to differ...Of course how much gold he means is the crux of the matter but I for one worked on a very limited budget and still do - Scrooge is my middle name.

Good read though and amusing about the 'Hysterical Places Trust' - half witted politically correct yobbos. Historical? Maybe BUT these places are disintegrating back into nature by the affects of the elements and unless these gormless halfwitted dilberries (rabbit turds) actually get out there restore, rebuild them, reroof and maintain them instead of squawking like [pregnant platypuses then these things are lost in any case.

There are too minority group peasants out there who given a little authority display for the rest of us that the Stalin and Hitler mentality is alive and well.
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