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4.5 nugget Cromwell

fiddy40		Posted : Friday, 18 January 2013 7:10:35 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 13/10/2012(UTC) Posts: 44 Location: Hamilton Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 3 time(s) in 3 post(s)		The nugget found by a tourist yesterday is worth about $500. Photo / Otago Daily Times Expand The nugget found by a tourist yesterday is worth about $500. Photo / Otago Daily Times They've struck gold near Cromwell again - in the middle of the 150-year celebrations of its initial discovery. Yesterday, an excited tourist and his family left the Goldfields Mining Centre, 10km upstream from the claim of miners Hartley and Reilly, with a 4.5g gold nugget worth about $500. Goldfields guide Brian Henderson said the man, his wife and two children were thought to be from Christchurch. "It's funny... his grandfather worked the [gold] dredges here at the turn of the century." Mr Henderson, who's worked at the centre for 15 years, said staff had seen the odd nugget turn up but the finds were usually just gold flakes. A guide had once found a couple of small nuggets when demonstrating how to pan, he said. - Otago Daily Times
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kiwijw		Posted : Tuesday, 22 January 2013 7:18:42 AM(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)		I thought this was a recent find so checked it out but it was the one found back in july last year. http://www.nzherald.co.n...=1&objectid=10819019 Just goes to show though that you never know your luck. Even in a thrashed gold field. I must admit that the old workings I detect in are getting very hard to find gold in now. It is usually all pretty small pieces when they do turn up. The bigger bits having been found or detected long ago. Only found 6 little bits for the whole weekend for just under 2 grams, & I walked for bloody miles trying to think outside of the square as to where gold might be. Like the old saying goes, "Gold is where you find it" Good luck out there JW :)

fiddy40		Posted : Tuesday, 22 January 2013 8:41:26 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 13/10/2012(UTC) Posts: 44 Location: Hamilton Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 3 time(s) in 3 post(s)		Oh! was it, bugger did not take notice of date, funny how it came about as I heard on the news that morning about the 4.5k found in Aus, so when I saw that story thought I had got the weight wrong and posted the Cromwell find, oh well no prob...... Cheers for that
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Golddigger7		Posted : Tuesday, 22 January 2013 9:02:39 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 6/09/2012(UTC) Posts: 252 Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 46 time(s) in 35 post(s)		Just a bad run for u JW, ur previous reports indicate that u were doing ok, just a few off days is all, u will be back on ur game next weekend, lol.