New Zealand Gold Prospecting & Metal Detecting Forums Archive

compare the hole and rocks to last photo only for 3 grams

i hit old man bottom not rock but as hard as tried using a crowbar to smash through but to hard steve has his blasting ticket so mite have to give that a go have found in the past the good gold is under the oldman

could comment about the old mans bottom but this is a family show not that its stopped me in the past

some daysjust turn out shit
foggy all the way to the claim river was down so that was good after the rain stayed foggy till it started to rain round 2.30
got the dredge out to find that i had left the mesh that goes in the box at home result no fine gold but a bit of coarse stuff conclusion is that the keen 4" wont work well without the screen
shifted a heap of rocks again piled the piles higher and forgot to take the camera so cant show the progress to you

the good news i found the gold line on the beach after 6 days the bad news it runs under the big pile of rocks
no one turned up to give me a hand to rioll the big rocks across the bottom of the pool

Have you got a metal detector Kiwikeith or do you just stick to a pan and possuming when out these reomote areas?

hey keith i would love to have a detect around the road and were the ferry picked people up im sure there would be some old coins and artifacts to find. might see if bert will come with me but i dunno you know how lazy he can be from possuming with him lmao anyway some coordinates to the area would be great

Hi Kiwikeith Good to see some gold in the top mat a, the keene dredge works wall

hi goldstalker

the road coordinates it goes along the ridge we came across it at the northern coordinates and went of it at the southern where it goes not to sure but would assume it will curl round to opposite the Lyell where the punt was

e 1519159 n 5372664 north end of road
e 1519299 n5372132 south end of road

it was interesting to find some old fruit trees also over the bank or should I say cliff looks like there could have been some houses there at one stage as there is also raspberries and gooseberry bushes in a cut over area

if one had some time it would be worth a trip as the access isn't to bad if you follow the ridge from the power line road

give me a note if interested in going for a walk or anybody else as well

reefton
blacks point a great place for history there are mines all over the place great tracks if you walk the tram track there is 766 steps counted them all the other day
try up lankey creek a good walk that takes you past old batteries and mines drives into the hill with cuttings and water races
below (photo) the Bolitho brothers mine you are told do not enter but when ones says that of course one has to maybe worth sweeping the walls with a detector
this area has to rank high up the list for things to look at you could always walk up to cementown there is nothing there now but old workings and house sites

blacks point
reefton
some more of the horrible place work takes me
the tram track behind blacks point well worth the walk all gold history

I love these old deserted places you find Keith and cant wait to spend some decent time over there so I can try to see these places for myself. Have you been anywhere neat lately? Seen anything interesting?

Thanks Keith, you sure get to some great places and to get paid to do so would be an added bonus! I'm sure there's plenty of hard yakka and hard weather to contend with though!
You(and your claim partner(s)) are a kind and generous man letting the members here onto your claim. May the gold karma gods reward you for such generosity!