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SHAG RIVER
NiN  
Posted : Sunday, 13 November 2011 5:28:30 PM(UTC)
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what is the deal with having a look there is it a public fossiking spot or not? i see people in there at a rest stop with a sluce box.?
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Posted : Monday, 14 November 2011 9:20:52 AM(UTC)
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crown minerals site will tell you if it has been designated, if its not then check for permits on the same site, then make your own decision re contacting land owners
otherwise i dont think it is a wise idea to place on a forum where you have seen people fossicking, it brings unwanted attention!!
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Posted : Thursday, 17 November 2011 10:25:47 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: NiN Go to Quoted Post
what is the deal with having a look there is it a public fossiking spot or not? i see people in there at a rest stop with a sluce box.?


Do you mean the rest stop where the old railway ran just above and beside the road and the road in turn was just up form the river and from Palmerston you went about five miles then the road met the river and you turned a bend to left then to right, more or less an S bend and the picnic spot immediately to the right just past the S bend with a concrete bridge across the river...well there was!

If so then every man and his dog has prospected there. It is the very first spot I ever went gold fossicking after the Arrow River. My uncle and his two partners got many ounces of gold there and I believe that a chap may have got upwards of thirty ounces just downstream in the last two or three years.

I have no reason to believe that there will not be gold there yet as every tiny crack and crevice there had gold in it once and there will still be cracks and crevices to look in.

These two fellows in the following photo were possibly the first modern day miners to work in there in the early 1960s - they were taken there by J.A.White son of Robert White manager of the Sandhills gold dredge and grandson of Aspinal of Skippers Canyon...Old Jack knew all of these places and took them to places where no one in modern times had considered as all the fledgling fossickers of the 1960s seemed to head for the Arrow, Moke and moonlight. This photo was taken in the Shag River.

http://img.photobucket.c...he1960s.jpg?t=1222727247

The diver on the left is my uncle, Charles Thomas. ON a Tuesday in May 1978, he Jack White and I were gold mining in the river and it was snowing - we got juston 1 1/2 ounces that day. On the Thursday we returned to the same spot and once again the weather was crummy. My uncle collapsed in the river that day - that was the last I ever saw of him as he died four nights later.

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