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lake coliridge dredging - gold
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Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 12:11:16 PM(UTC)
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Hi has anyone tried panning or dredging around this area or the lake it self now or in the past were would I go to find out thanks jd
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Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 2:13:26 PM(UTC)
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I have had a play in the Rakaia between Coleridge and the Gorge bridge...way back in the dim and distant past when I was still learning. Mainly washing moss and digging out crevices. I may have had a bit of extremely fine colour but nothing that got me excited. I did however find a few, heavy silver colored metalic looking crystals about 3 mm diameter...never worked out what they were.
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Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 2:51:31 PM(UTC)
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I have had a play in the Rakaia between Coleridge and the Gorge bridge...way back in the dim and distant past when I was still learning. Mainly washing moss and digging out crevices. I may have had a bit of extremely fine colour but nothing that got me excited. I did however find a few, heavy silver colored metalic looking crystals about 3 mm diameter...never worked out what they were.


So you didnt get all that gold in your pic, there then? :)
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Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 4:26:06 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: LBD Go to Quoted Post

I have had a play in the Rakaia between Coleridge and the Gorge bridge...way back in the dim and distant past when I was still learning. Mainly washing moss and digging out crevices. I may have had a bit of extremely fine colour but nothing that got me excited. I did however find a few, heavy silver colored metalic looking crystals about 3 mm diameter...never worked out what they were.


Thanks im keen to find out more about this area I have tramped and salmon fished all threw this area but now the gold bug has got me im keen to look deeper I see their are two claims in the wilberforce area Im wondering mt algedus and glenarife are areas that run along the divide and the wilberforce runs into the lake why would gold not be in their ?
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Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 9:05:29 PM(UTC)
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i dont see why there shouldnt be gold in the lake area after all its the terminal merrain for the wilberforce glacier
and at the head of the wilberforce was a gold reef . the gold on the beach at birdlings is from the rakaia river which the wilberforce flows into i say its there
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Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 10:26:02 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: LBD Go to Quoted Post

I have had a play in the Rakaia between Coleridge and the Gorge bridge...way back in the dim and distant past when I was still learning. Mainly washing moss and digging out crevices. I may have had a bit of extremely fine colour but nothing that got me excited. I did however find a few, heavy silver colored metalic looking crystals about 3 mm diameter...never worked out what they were.


So you didnt get all that gold in your pic, there then? :)
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Posted : Tuesday, 10 July 2012 6:42:01 PM(UTC)
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i dont see why there shouldnt be gold in the lake area after all its the terminal merrain for the wilberforce glacier
and at the head of the wilberforce was a gold reef . the gold on the beach at birdlings is from the rakaia river which the wilberforce flows into i say its there


I have spent plenty of time up their I had batch at harper end of the lake boat harbour camp and fished all over their also I was mad on tramping in that area so over the years I have spent many nights traveling up the wilberforce i never gave the gold thing a second thought all these years later and now I want to do it again looking for signs
although I now live in blenheim Im still wandering around this area exsploring my latest find is a place called arm chair creek what do you know about that place near stoke /wakefeild/st arnard sounds like it was a buisy place in the early years jd
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Posted : Tuesday, 10 July 2012 8:00:32 PM(UTC)
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Did you mean you found gold in the Armchair creek? It wes definetly mined in the rush days.
And now....On sandy beaches and muddy soil, rings and coins await my coil!
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Posted : Tuesday, 10 July 2012 8:47:39 PM(UTC)
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hi jd i lived for 5 years in arthurs pass so i also know the area rather well
the ridge between the arm chair and top valley stream had a gold mine on it called the jubilee mine (ref to your topo map) although i have never spent time in the area
also mt patriarch south of the above has gold in the area
i read this in a book so will do some reading to see if it was one of my books will be in touch
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Posted : Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:51:19 AM(UTC)
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Hi i was reading some good stories about the arm chair creek and the good gold that has come from their it was on google in about the 1900s i was researching wilberforce gold in the old papers this sounded better than wakamarina gold id have to go back and find it again interesting reading look at this 1200 pm im still on here haha of to bed now jd
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