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man dredging in public fossicking are

simon		Posted : Wednesday, 1 February 2012 9:18:37 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 7/01/2011(UTC) Posts: 789 Location: Central Otago Thanks: 33 times Was thanked: 239 time(s) in 150 post(s)		it's a hard call when you find someone doing what this guy did. you dob him in and as pointed out you could open a can of worms for everyone. in the old days this guy wouldn't have been looked at twice. i guess sometimes you need to let your anger settle a little before taking action. the guy here though seemed to be looking for trouble. he was right next to a vehicle crossing. i'm thinking i wouldn't want to be the guy driving his 4wd into a big bloody hole. you don't expect a huge hole in that spot, especially if you've just been up to macetown and isn't wasn't there on the way up and you know it hasn't rained. maybe this guy was just testing his gear. that was one of the first crossings. didn't look like too much had been achieved by the time this photo was taken? as pointed out thou anyone in the know looking in such a spot would need to be looking for a way to get to the bottom. a complicated situation all round.
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Lammerlaw		Posted : Wednesday, 1 February 2012 9:35:57 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 24/05/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,721 Thanks: 72 times Was thanked: 579 time(s) in 396 post(s)		It is complicated and to be honest I really dont know what the rules and regulations are so would have driven by and thought nothing about him dredging. Second to last time I was up at Arrowtown I noticed a fellow setting up a small dredger in the public fossicking spot so this chap cannot be a one off. I think that if a chap knows the rules and regulations then a simple approach to the dredge owner might be enough to enlighten him but I would also say tha tin view of the trouble he has gone to you will overlook his transgression today but it might pay in his best interests not to return with the dredge in future otherwise the authorities will be notified. As for me - even if I did see him sometime in the future I would say nothing because he is in HIS country and harming no one and it is only the unfair rules and laws which go against the natures and interests of good old New Zealanders that make it unlawful for him to do his dredging - the rules of course being in favour NOT of us but of the giant offshore companies who will one day want to put a huge strip mining machine in there, tear the sides of the river and the bed of the river to shreds, alter the landscape for ever, take the gold recovered off shore and leave our country a mess...their idea of reinstatment being to turn the beautiful rock outcrops and Tors into paddocks and mundane, boring shadows of their former glory.

Falcon		Posted : Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:51:12 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Groups: Registered Joined: 31/01/2012(UTC) Posts: 12 Location: Dunedin Thanks: 5 times		I just got in one of allan trees funnel feeders will be testing it out in about a weeks time will let you know how it goes. all i have used up till now has been a small clean up sluice 600mm long 100mm wide with small expanded metal and minners moss just hook up to garden hose and spoon away. still slow but works takes about an hour to go through a 5" dredge concentrates. im hoping the funnel feeder will be alot better as apparently you can just fill it up and leave it for a while and just top it up everynow and then. and unless you only have about 2 cups of black sand to deal with stay away from blue bowls these are the most tedious time consuming heaps of S**T a 10L bucket of 30-50 mesh will take the good part of 4 hours take it from me ive learned the hard way if you want one ill sell you mine. Will be interesting to hear how that works.....I have also heard the blue bowls take ages - how did it compare with gold recovery to other methods u have used?

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