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Gabriels gully - panning

Whitworthone		Posted : Thursday, 18 October 2012 7:37:35 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Groups: Registered Joined: 11/08/2011(UTC) Posts: 11 Location: Nelson Thanks: 6 times Was thanked: 6 time(s) in 4 post(s)		I will be working in Gore for a few days next week. I will have my pan with me, is it worth going to the fossicking site at Gabriels Gully? Or is there somewhere I can go and find a bit of au somewhere else?

1864hatter		Posted : Thursday, 18 October 2012 8:17:34 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 4/08/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,007 Location: Auckland.... Thanks: 49 times Was thanked: 566 time(s) in 269 post(s)		If you go to the fossicking area at Gabriels gully you will have to be happy if you find a few specks. I have put a lot of material through the sluice pox from there and got bugger all. Part of the problem is that the fosicking area is situated on previously worked gravel and the berock is many metres below the surface. I did get a few drops of mercury there Good luck if you decide to go there, its worth doing the walk and having a look at the old workings.
		And now....On sandy beaches and muddy soil, rings and coins await my coil!

Lammerlaw		Posted : Thursday, 18 October 2012 8:59:55 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 24/05/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,721 Thanks: 72 times Was thanked: 579 time(s) in 396 post(s)		My advice is anywhere but there! Sadly in this day and age of PC there are so many drop kicks who will report you if you are seen anywhere else but give it a go elsewhere - forget pan and sluice box - make yourself a little glass bottom box and with a bent screwdriver scratch out crevices in the bedrock in any little streams and you just might be pleasantly surprised. If you want to pan then scratch out the dirt from little crevices on the banks of the Clutha where there is bedrock exposed...you wont get much but if you dont find ten times more than the public fossicking area at Gabriels Gully then I will be most surprised. Good luck PS I once saw a lovely nugget with quartz in it that a fellow picked up in the 1950s or 1960s off the beach at the mouth of the Clutha. Edited by user Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:34:16 PM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified

kiwijw		Posted : Thursday, 18 October 2012 9:09:25 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 28/03/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,152 Thanks: 92 times Was thanked: 658 time(s) in 324 post(s)		Yep....have to agree. Gabriel's Gully sux. JW :)

Whitworthone		Posted : Wednesday, 7 November 2012 7:59:35 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Groups: Registered Joined: 11/08/2011(UTC) Posts: 11 Location: Nelson Thanks: 6 times Was thanked: 6 time(s) in 4 post(s)		Thanks for the advice everybody. Didn't go to Gabriels Gully, didn't have much time really. Had half an hour on a creek off the highway on Manuka gorge(I think) on my way back to the digs from work. 3 small flakes that I lost in the hire car, I can still say I got some!