Hunting in New Zealand ( Lots of NZ Photos in this thread)
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YAHOO they look great!! tons a au 2 u 2-John 
YAHOO they look great!! tons a au 2 u 2-John
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Thanks John. I have found some beaut nuggets around this spot. I was born on this property but it has changed hands a few times since. I know where there is a reef that my old uncle got heaps of gold, and when us kids were young we went down in the hole. He was so mad he took his dynamite up there and blew it in.!!! It is still there and maybe one day I will get a go at it. Meantime I will just wander around and pick up the nuggies. I still have some of the rich reef gold he left when he died. He always said that the reef continued across the gully so when I get my Golden King I will be looking for it. As I live in Australia now I don't get over there very often.
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Thanks John. I have found some beaut nuggets around this spot. I was born on this property but it has changed hands a few times since. I know where there is a reef that my old uncle got heaps of gold, and when us kids were young we went down in the hole. He was so mad he took his dynamite up there and blew it in.!!! It is still there and maybe one day I will get a go at it. Meantime I will just wander around and pick up the nuggies. I still have some of the rich reef gold he left when he died. He always said that the reef continued across the gully so when I get my Golden King I will be looking for it. As I live in Australia now I don't get over there very often.
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Ya just gotta love a country that convinces people (tourists), that its fun to roll down hill in a puddle of water inside a big plastic bubble, ( they call it a Zorb).
And where they apparently have taught gold nuggets to jump up onto the coil of any passing metal detector. 
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Ya just gotta love a country that convinces people (tourists), that its fun to roll down hill in a puddle of water inside a big plastic bubble, ( they call it a Zorb).
And where they apparently have taught gold nuggets to jump up onto the coil of any passing metal detector. F.
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Hi guys, Yep there is some nice gold to be found in NZ.
Check out this 5ozer
2ozer
Or this cabinet of NZ collectable nuggies housed in the Gold Shop in Arrowtown
Some nice little pickers found with a 2" gravity dredge sucking out a mountain creek hole.
Sluice boxing
And it is that time of the year agian with summer just around the corner
Happy goldin
Kiwi JW
Hi guys, Yep there is some nice gold to be found in NZ.
Check out this 5ozer
2ozer
Or this cabinet of NZ collectable nuggies housed in the Gold Shop in Arrowtown
Some nice little pickers found with a 2" gravity dredge sucking out a mountain creek hole.
Sluice boxing
And it is that time of the year agian with summer just around the corner
Happy goldin
Kiwi JW
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G'day Wildcat, Sorry mate ment to make mention of your nice gold. Well done.
I am from the Coromandel area but lookin at movin down to Central as the Coro gold aint a patch on the central stuff. How come you have jumped the ditch?
Foot in both camps aye 
I run a GP 3000 looking for gold but pretty much stick to the water, dredgin & sluicin & crevicing & all that. I know central pretty well especially the QT, Arrowtown areas, Macetown, Skippers, Bannockburn, Carrick, Nevise, Naseby, Bendigo, Kyeburn, Cadrona etc The list goes on aye........Beautiful Country. Godzone. The worlds best kept secret aye 
You do much in Oz?
Good luck & happy golding.
Kiwi JW
G'day Wildcat, Sorry mate ment to make mention of your nice gold. Well done.
I am from the Coromandel area but lookin at movin down to Central as the Coro gold aint a patch on the central stuff. How come you have jumped the ditch?
Foot in both camps aye I run a GP 3000 looking for gold but pretty much stick to the water, dredgin & sluicin & crevicing & all that. I know central pretty well especially the QT, Arrowtown areas, Macetown, Skippers, Bannockburn, Carrick, Nevise, Naseby, Bendigo, Kyeburn, Cadrona etc The list goes on aye........Beautiful Country. Godzone. The worlds best kept secret aye You do much in Oz?Good luck & happy golding.
Kiwi JW
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Hey Wildcat, Check the pics I put up on the Whites/Goldbug thread. Bit of Arrow gold & some rough hokey pokey Coromandel dentrital that hasnt travelled very far from its source. But do you think I can bloody find it. 
LOL
Take care out there & may there be glint of yellow at the point of yer pick
JW
Hey Wildcat, Check the pics I put up on the Whites/Goldbug thread. Bit of Arrow gold & some rough hokey pokey Coromandel dentrital that hasnt travelled very far from its source. But do you think I can bloody find it.
LOLTake care out there & may there be glint of yellow at the point of yer pick
JW
Hoser John
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DAMN RIGHTEOUSLY GOOD LOOKN' GOLD GENTS tons a au 2 u 2 -John
DAMN RIGHTEOUSLY GOOD LOOKN' GOLD GENTS tons a au 2 u 2 -John
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Hey JW and all. I came to Oz in '76. Got fed up with Invercargill weather. I was born in Ranfurly and lived young years at Poolburn, Omakau. I agree, it is some of the best country anywhere. Just too cold for me in winter. If I ever went back it would be to Alexandra / Clyde area. My brother used to have a small portable dredge in the Manuherikia near Omakau near the Dan O'Çonnell bridge. Nice and shallow, quite a few rock bars here and there. I am a detector man but would have a go at a dredge if I was in the right locale. I have lived in Western Australia, Victoria and have been in Queensland most of the time. Found some good bits in all those places.
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Hey JW and all. I came to Oz in '76. Got fed up with Invercargill weather. I was born in Ranfurly and lived young years at Poolburn, Omakau. I agree, it is some of the best country anywhere. Just too cold for me in winter. If I ever went back it would be to Alexandra / Clyde area. My brother used to have a small portable dredge in the Manuherikia near Omakau near the Dan O'Çonnell bridge. Nice and shallow, quite a few rock bars here and there. I am a detector man but would have a go at a dredge if I was in the right locale. I have lived in Western Australia, Victoria and have been in Queensland most of the time. Found some good bits in all those places.
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<-- Dis Funtional
I know you have most of the good nuggets down there and enough of a season to seriously hunt for them. I'm happy when I cover costs. But, I'd be happier if I could just find a reliable source for vegemite here in western Canada. I met an aussie gal once and she got me addicted to it.
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<-- Dis Funtional I know you have most of the good nuggets down there and enough of a season to seriously hunt for them. I'm happy when I cover costs. But, I'd be happier if I could just find a reliable source for vegemite here in western Canada. I met an aussie gal once and she got me addicted to it.F.
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Well (Dis) Functional..... I prefer Marmite.. (Beef extract instead of vege extract) Looks the same but just tastes better to me.
My mate and I went out for a hunt today and found 20 cents between us.....grrrrrr
Well (Dis) Functional..... I prefer Marmite.. (Beef extract instead of vege extract) Looks the same but just tastes better to me.
My mate and I went out for a hunt today and found 20 cents between us.....grrrrrr
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I was going to try Marmite once, but then I saw that it was the UK version with veggies in it. I'd heard that the NZ version was better, but I've yet to find any in the stores I've looked in for it.
There's twenty current cents, then there's twenty historic cents. The later is preferable. Maybe stick to nugget shooting? Twenty nuggets. Now I like that sound of that, no matter how old the nuggets are.
My season for gold is at its end here, with a snow levels reaching down to within 150 feet of the valley bottom, but I'll spend the winter preparing for next year. Just bought myself a used oxygen acetylene welding and cutting outfit, with supplies for working with regular steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and cast iron, enough to last me the next year. From this point on, the winter months will be spent living vicariously through the lives of other gold panner's and nugget shooter's.
K.
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I was going to try Marmite once, but then I saw that it was the UK version with veggies in it. I'd heard that the NZ version was better, but I've yet to find any in the stores I've looked in for it.
There's twenty current cents, then there's twenty historic cents. The later is preferable. Maybe stick to nugget shooting? Twenty nuggets. Now I like that sound of that, no matter how old the nuggets are.
My season for gold is at its end here, with a snow levels reaching down to within 150 feet of the valley bottom, but I'll spend the winter preparing for next year. Just bought myself a used oxygen acetylene welding and cutting outfit, with supplies for working with regular steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and cast iron, enough to last me the next year. From this point on, the winter months will be spent living vicariously through the lives of other gold panner's and nugget shooter's.
K.
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But wait....there is more
Another old miners hut & inside
Hydrolic sluicing monitor in action
Hydrolic sluiced area
Tailings race from the hydrolic sluiced area above
Water wheel powered 10 head stamper battery
Another stamper & berdan set up (ruins of)
Hand stacked tailings
Another stamper
More hand stacked tailings
A different kind of "digger" in the creek
Happy golding
KiwiJW
But wait....there is more
Another old miners hut & inside
Hydrolic sluicing monitor in action
Hydrolic sluiced area
Tailings race from the hydrolic sluiced area above
Water wheel powered 10 head stamper battery
Another stamper & berdan set up (ruins of)
Hand stacked tailings
Another stamper
More hand stacked tailings
A different kind of "digger" in the creek
Happy golding
KiwiJW
Hoser John
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Come on now--where is Frodothanx much for the great pix and I'd give any of my X-wives to run that moniter too!!! thanx much John 
Come on now--where is Frodothanx much for the great pix and I'd give any of my X-wives to run that moniter too!!! thanx much John 
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Wow, great pics guys. Let me pack my dredge and leave no forwarding add'y
Wow, great pics guys. Let me pack my dredge and leave no forwarding add'y
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