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Historical Skipper Canyon / Maori Point gold mining artefacts
gavin  
Posted : Sunday, 26 December 2010 8:41:24 AM(UTC)
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Interesting historical Skipper Canyon / Maori Point gold mining artefacts video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujaul5vxMVc

And the topo map of location:

http://www.topomap.co.nz/NZTopoMap?v=2&ll=-44.864525,168.675064&z=14
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simon  
Posted : Friday, 7 January 2011 2:35:15 PM(UTC)
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a very interesting video. i have often gone down the maori point track and looked over the river at the suction dredge - now i know a bit more about it!
once i found a small nugget just lying there by my feet. same trip my mate got a small one from under a tussock. as always we searched high and low for more, and as it often seems with the more nuggety gold down here, nothing else at all. a pretty picked over area tho.
if you view the above video there is a link to another video about the bullendale power plant. also well worth a look.
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