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Hi Kiwikeith
i thoroughly enjoy your posts, as i have lived the last 7 years in Greymouth chasing the elusive yellow and know most of the places you posting about. I have a few unfinished projects and one of them is the Punakaiki headwaters where one side creek calls Deadman Creek. Do you know which one it is? I have been in the headwatwers several times and have found a nice 2 gram bean and some campsides with bottles from the 30ies and one from the 80ies high up above the water. But i have never found the remains of the stone hut which spouse to be well above from the water.
Anyway, by the size of your suction dredge you would probably do well up the Ten Mile north of Greymouth. I managed 2 grams of flood gold per qubic meter without hitting bottom with my 2 inch dredge on a number of places. I found it was too much hard work as i had to shovel every thing down to a golf ball size.
By the way have you tried the two Maori Creeks up the Mokihinui? i know the Hodges is claimed and the Hennessy is barren.

Sounds like an interesting read! Just placed on hold at my local library - looking forward to the read :) Cheers for the recommendation!

I love it Keith - I can see that soon the multitude will be invading the Lyell area - I guess that will keep the heat off my neck of the woods - great reading though and everytime the Lyell is mentioned I see myself sitting on the bank of the creek above the Buller just upstream from there discussing my philosophies on life with a group of Hare Krishna people and looking for gold in the cracks in the bedrock on the creek banks just where the Buller goes from a wide flat beach into a narrow gut and over a six or ten foot drop - nice spot there.

I am heading for Mexico - its your fault - do you want to come - PS bring the .45 - 70

hi crushit
yes i found the road at the new creek end when doing the possums up there didnt have time to follow it

i see your from westport perhaps a day trip to scout the area would be on give me a call 7828955
perhaps you have seen my old disco round town raised up with all the dressings and a possum on the back window (not real)

hoping to head up the blackwater when it stops raining

Hi Keith

You had better bring it over one day and we will see how it goes against my 50 - 70 Sharps if I can get some shells for it.

I am pretty certain that there were a few goats around Nelson Creek way once upon a time - over at the back of our place there used to be two large mobs of goats - one mob was coloured and the other white angora - they were totally racist as they never mixed - they were all shot by one of the local council arse lickers.

just give me a yell when wanting to go ill be there

as far as i know it follows the old dray track ive walked a bit of it and they are making a nice job of it

i see you live in oxford caz and i built the new house up on the hill in sales road must catch up some time
cheers

Howd the birthday go Keith? You were right about Goldsborough, after going through all the concentrates Ash and I brought home, it appears the best spot was in fact Goldsborough. We tried a few spots at Nelson Creek, Goldsborough and Moonlight Creek. The Moonlight was the only place we saw other prospectors, and a shitload of stoat traps! What a great drive in it was! Thanks to the nice person who cut all the trees out the way! Didnt get much time in each spot but enough to whet the appetite for more! Thanks for all the good tips and hopefully we can say gidday next time!

sorry folks its been awhile since ive given out any locations
spent last 10 days in the greenstone / little hohonu river found some good locations for those who walk round with metal detectors two large sluice faces always worth a scan

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both sites were very old but could be worth some time if passing through the area

also lots of mine shafts in this area so be careful when walking in the bush found some interesting old road cuttings, and water races
will post later a creek that showed good colour (didnt have my pan with me) but removing rocks soon showed gold under some

here is the hot tip i promised

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there is a small creek that comes steeply down the hill (of course wouldnt come up the hill) shfted a few stones to get the flow right for a ground sluice and there it eas a couple of small yellow specks didnt have my plan with me so maybe i will get time this week to look at it better

west of this creek (with no name) by about 1 to 1.5 km are old roads, waterraces, and shafts bits of steel laying on the ground
if you are in the area eith nothing to do it would be worth a looky to see

I read Keiths contributions religiously but dont want to tell him that as he might let it all go to his head so mums the word - it is good reading and hes a great fellow into the bargain...next time he is down this way perhaps we can get together and you come to my place for a potter about together with another couple of forum members whom I know.

As for having your own thread you go for it - it isnt a matter of divulging your good spots but maybe an overview of your times out - it could be a cross between your past and the places you visited plus current finds. I decided some time ago to place my current and historical finds into my Relics of the Goldfields as it places all of my history and findings past and present into either one of two threads I run rather than clutter the site with a new thread every time I walk out the door...why dont you do that. As with Keiths threads I read every one and would for yours but tend not to comment as no one else seems to do it much I have found but it does not mean that they dont enjoy reading them.

When I get into Paydirt I look for specific contributions from specific people and you and Keith are two of those and thus I think a thread of your days out, past and present plus photos of Central generally together with wee anecdotal comments as well as historical comments would be ace.