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West Coast fossicking

goldsborough		Posted : Friday, 14 November 2014 7:29:43 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 28/12/2013(UTC) Posts: 26 Location: Rotorua Thanks: 11 times Was thanked: 24 time(s) in 10 post(s)		First time posting, been lurking since we registered. User name is where we had our first real luck, doing a family trip last year. Location was suggested by the backpackers manager were we stayed at in Hokitika. We are now heading backdown next week for another trip by ourselves on motorcycles. Destination is Haast as we have to get the usual fishing and paua gathering out of the way first. Then crawling back up the west coast with no particular plan fossicking with our pans. We were thinking of just doing a rough gather of blacksand, then finish it off when we get home to Rotorua. Looking for advice on where are there other spots like Goldsborough, we really enjoyed it. Also would getting one of these, http://www.trademe.co.nz...sting.aspx?id=805752938. Are they available in the shops on the west coast?

nafcd		Posted : Saturday, 15 November 2014 7:27:26 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 28/12/2012(UTC) Posts: 276 Location: ashburton Thanks: 8 times Was thanked: 46 time(s) in 34 post(s)		have you had a look in the locations section of paydirt. lists the public areas. that's a start. not sure if you get classifiers on the coast. I know its not hard to get pans. try the warehouse or mitre 10. you could use a cheap vegetable strainer or something like that if theres nothing around.

gavin		Posted : Saturday, 15 November 2014 8:14:27 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		Daniel has all the toys you might want - he's a good guy that will sort you out quickly - http://www.dredgenz.co.nz/
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goldsborough		Posted : Sunday, 16 November 2014 7:22:16 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 28/12/2013(UTC) Posts: 26 Location: Rotorua Thanks: 11 times Was thanked: 24 time(s) in 10 post(s)		Did the shopping thing today, not much available similiar to what we wanted in a classifier. So we have McGyverd a bucket and drilled holes in a bowl that fits in the bucket. The idea that we reduce the size, pan roughly down to sand, collect it and let the boy's pan it when we get home. Trawled through the locations link and saved the links to the locations we will be passing and will look at them before we go. Things looking good, now sorting fishing stuff etc. Thanks guys.

nafcd		Posted : Sunday, 16 November 2014 8:30:17 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 28/12/2012(UTC) Posts: 276 Location: ashburton Thanks: 8 times Was thanked: 46 time(s) in 34 post(s)		good luck and hope the weather gods are kind to you. don't forget to let us know how you got on