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Wow Hatter you are doing so well. Must be 20g in recent weeks looking back at your posts.
Can we see a 5 grammer next post please. :-)


MK

thats some nice gold you are getting up there matt.

the waka is where i got the gold bug i think. my uncle used to take us in there when i was younger.

deep creek area has some nice gold. have you read the huge volume on the waka? there's 1 huge book plus half a 2nd one. hundreds of pages. awesome pics make it. those wing dams in the waka itself and the dewatering of the riverbed must have seemed an impossible task for back then. even today it would be a feat to do.

have you tried around old stumps of dams? always a good spot to try if no one has beat you to it and cleaned up fully.

keep it up.

Running total for this thread is 40.1g (brag brag) Hey Jw, simon, I have read that book several times. There is also a book about the eastern Marlborough goldfields by the same author of similar size. Metal Kiwi- i'll try to find that 5 grammer for you tomorrow. and the 6,7,8,9,and10 grammers too haha

hey mate havnt been out since tuesday when I got back. I'd say the river might be up a bit but but is been very low so may not be a big problem. Never know tho could be in full flood!

RIGHT- time to update you lot on my adventures. My recent silence does not mean that im finding so much gold that its embarrassing.
The opposite is actually true. I spent 2 full days working the spot where I had got the last nuggets and came away with just 3.3g. I had my brother with me so we split the proceeds and both ended up with nothing lol. I have included a photo of our workings. We have sifted through everything around the large boulder on the left up to the white boulder upstream behind my brother. Hes not standig on bedrock yet. Its another 2 feet down. There is still gold there but there is about 4-6 foot of gravel and boulders set in clay on top of it that slows us down way too much to make it worthwile. Also added a photo of a tree we found. The gold ranged between .2 and .7g

Simon- We hgave found the bedrock under all of that area I outlined above. We only got gold in the lowermost portion of the clay bound gravels. Where my bro is standing the bedrock was as deep as I am. About 6 foot. Had to winch the odd boulder too. You are right The large boulder on the left is sitting on the bedrock. I did test pans on numerous occasions and never got a speck. The gold here is just too coarse most of it just sits on the bottom.

That's a mighty fine hole you have there

Well the gold has been a bit reluctant to respond to my advances lately. Had one trip out about a week back and only got 2 grams for about 8 hours. Tried a new creek on that trip where i got 3 bits for half a gram and the rest came from ground Ive beaten to death in the past.

Went for a huntin/detecting trip with the old man and sister yesterday. We had seen quite a few goats there in the past but it was not to be this time. I did manage to find a tiny 0.22g piece of gold in one of the strerams as a consolation prize. The creek has historically produced nuggets to 12oz and has the best bedrock I have encountered, however despite me detecting almost its entire lenght thats all I got.

And thats the update for this time around...

Oh and Merry belated Christrmas to you all

Hi all;
hell the weather has been hot and dry,
been up the river for the past three days,using me hookha for some sniping have managed only about 4.5 grams, dispite a great deal of effort;
Caught up with Carl (Ellement 11) who is doing very well up his claim in deep creek,
Heading back for the weekend to finish off a spot that came good before me gear rattled apart,
Take care
Steve

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The nugget on the Lower side of the picture that looks like a praying mantis mandible or front leg.

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This location is very capable of producing per person a 1KG + + of gold in 3-4 weeks.

Experienced Outdoors people *Only* as this is a Wilderness location and parts are isolated that WE will hike into & some steep Hiking maybe involved to seek another Lot of large Placer nuggets.
You will need a high level of Fitness to maintain the pace to hike into locations & out again each day.

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A venomous species of Adder also known to frequent this location.
Salmon in the creeks and streams Trout etc lots of Elk and Deer.
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