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Wakamarina detecting
x-terra steve  
Posted : Friday, 17 June 2011 11:55:40 AM(UTC)
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Hi all,
a couple of pics of detecting last summer,
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Posted : Friday, 17 June 2011 12:07:07 PM(UTC)
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I never get sick of looking at gold - bring it on! Good going and Love the nugget.
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Posted : Friday, 17 June 2011 4:52:21 PM(UTC)
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Posted : Friday, 17 June 2011 5:39:00 PM(UTC)
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Gidday Steve

Very nice!!!!.....I was hopeing you would show some of your summer finds, well done mate.

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Posted : Saturday, 18 June 2011 8:27:36 PM(UTC)
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Cheers guys,
I have a heap of photos some were of last summers detecting,just got to find them.
Am heading back to Nelson in the new year,hell i miss adventure that comes with finding the good stuff.
I have got a number of spots that always turns up the goods after a decent flood,is that what keeps me awake at night!.
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Posted : Saturday, 18 June 2011 8:48:13 PM(UTC)
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Beautiful Gold!...Are you detecting the bed rock along a river?
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Posted : Sunday, 19 June 2011 3:02:42 AM(UTC)
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Posted : Sunday, 19 June 2011 4:49:54 AM(UTC)
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That's a great job of salesmanship JW, maybe you should get a job at Tourism Coromandel. We need a few more who are passionate about the place.
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Posted : Sunday, 19 June 2011 7:25:24 AM(UTC)
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Some nice gold there steve. There is a lot of fine stuff in that first pic is that all detected? I'll be up the waka next week having a scratch around. Cant wait to get up there its a great place!
And now....On sandy beaches and muddy soil, rings and coins await my coil!
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Posted : Sunday, 19 June 2011 12:27:12 PM(UTC)
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Hi JW,
yep the place is all that and a lot warmer than the south!
Work is full on at the moment, some weeks can clock up 70 + hours, which leaves not a lot of gas in the tank to venture to far out.

Rege:
yes most of the gold is in shallow bedrock not far from the river waterline,in saying that your best asset out there is observation,get up well above the river and have a dam good look to see where the river flow may have been before we humans came on the scene.

Hi Lammerlaw,
I never ever get tired at looking at gold ,put it under the microscope and it takes on a whole new dimension.
PS nice looking boat,after looking at the pics you might not want to return home!.

Hatter,
how you doin?
yep all the fines detected as it seems to hang out the the bigger bits.
One crevice up past the sulice box had a nice 2.2 grammer and 4.5 grams of very fine stuff which took bloody hours to
extract.
Good luck up the Waka this week,keep in touch as i be keen to see how you go.
Take care out there
Steve
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Posted : Sunday, 19 June 2011 2:39:08 PM(UTC)
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good post JW i started my gold panning in the mighty coro great place used to go there a bit rock hunting gold panning and fishing good stuff go back there every now and then when im up there on holiday.

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Posted : Sunday, 19 June 2011 6:34:50 PM(UTC)
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Posted : Monday, 20 June 2011 2:18:29 PM(UTC)
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Hi JW yes the coro is a great place for the outdoors man, woman have you ever tried the pan up in the kaimais did a bit of hunting up there always carried pan with me got the odd tiny speck nothing to write home about tho.

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