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Alluvial gold is present within all these gold fossicking areas, although the concentrations are often low. All these areas are suitable for gold panning and sluice boxing, mining being restricted to hand-held non-motorised methods within the active stream bed. Nelson-Marlborough and the West Coast Aorere River - area A
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Lammerlaw Gold Exploration Project, Otago, New Zealand. NAE's Lammerlaw Prospecting Permit covers a large 265km 2 area in the Lammerlaw Ranges which is prospective for Macraes style (>10Moz) shear hosted gold targets. The Lammerlaw Permit contains historic gold, scheelite and antimony workings and New Zealand's largest alluvial gold deposit.
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Answer: Thanks for the A2A. For this question, we must consider factors such as geography and environment. Mining operations were established in both Otago and the West Coast during the 19th centuries. While the gold rush in Otago eventually came to an end, the West Coast still has coal and alluv...
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Many alluvial placer deposits around the world occur in river systems that have been affected by tectonic events, causing drainage reorientation and severance of links between placers and their sources. This study documents tectonic rejuvenation of topography in the Otago giant placer goldfield, New Zealand, which has resulted in numerous river capture and drainage reorientation events. These ...
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Alluvial gold is found beneath the surface at the bottom of a creak or stream. Alluvial gold mining is the process of extracting gold from these creaks, rivers and streams and is generally considered to be the most environmentally friendly method of gold mining as a result of the reduced environmental impact when compared to underground mining. ...
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Gold fossicking is the activity of collecting gold by a stream or river using metal detectors, pans, shovels, picks and sluice boxes. In gold fossicking areas, anyone is free to look for gold as long as you use non-motorised machinery and hand tools. You can fossick for gold in specific areas in the South Island only,
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The Blue Lake alluvial gold mine, St Bathans, Central Otago. The Blue Lake Fault passes through this area, but is diffuse as it has caused shearing at several different rock boundaries. Gold was enriched near the boundary between the white quartz gravels (centre) and the greywacke basement that forms the hills to the right and in the background.
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Large-scale gold dredges were invented for this river system in the late nineteenth century, and more than 100 of these dredges have operated in the young alluvial gravels along the course of the Clutha River and its tributaries (Williams 1974 ). The Otago Schist belt is an amalgam of three predominantly metasedimentary terranes (Fig. 1b ).
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Recreational gold mining and prospecting has become a popular outdoor recreation in a number of countries, including New Zealand (especially in Otago), ... Central Otago and South Otago. Alluvial gold can be found in low concentrations in all the fossicking areas. United Kingdom. Gold has been mined commercially in Wales ...
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An alluvial fan 5 km wide and 3.5 km long has been derived over the past 65,000 years from an actively rising schist mountain range (Dunstan Range) in Central Otago, New Zealand. The fan can be locally subdivided into four distinctive consecutively formed gravel sequences, the earliest of which has been deformed along the range margin.
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MINING. The secretary of (he Sanely Point dredg< reports a return of 320z for 120 hours' dredging last week. 'Hie return from Paterson's Freehold No. ] dredgo for last week was OOoz. No retun lias come to land from No. 2 dredge. Mr J. Richmond, formerly in charge- o: No. 1 Junction Electric dredge, is now ir charge o! the Tcviot dredge, near Roxburgh an

The alluvial sands are 40 to 100 feet thick, of upper fine sand, and lower coarse sand, with the last 8 feet fine sand with quartz boulders and gold (McKay, 1894). Its high altitude caused mining to be limited to eight months of the year (snow). A lack of water hampered development.
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Alluvial gold mining is the mining of stream bed deposits for minerals. Alluvial mining is frequently used for precious gold deposits which are often found in alluvial deposits i.e. in the sand and gravel of the river/stream beds. Alluvial gold deposits over a time when a river runs through ground that is rich in gold. The water erodes the surrounding rocks due to its comparative low density ...
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It is estimated that the population of Otago increased from 13000 in 1861 to 30,000 by 1865. As a result, the Provincial Council began to construct an infrastructure of roads, hotels, and police stations near the diggings. The modern city of Dunedin was born during this gold rush. In fact, New Zealand's oldest university, The University of ...
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Gold mining activity remained at a low level until there was a renewed interest in prospecting and mining due to the rise in the price of gold in 1979. New technology was introduced and during the 1980s most alluvial gold was produced by the use of hydraulic excavators, which fed skid mounted or floating rotary screens.
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The goldmining era is by no means at an end in Otago. Sites of old gold rushes such as the Clutha and Cardrona River beds are offering up new riches to mining companies. As new technologies are developed former gold mining areas are being re-opened. In the early 1990s, alluvial deposits at Island Block (near Millers Flat), and in the late 1990s ...
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The following text is from an Upgrade Report 21 November 2011: Murphy's Flat, near Macraes Flat in Otago, a windswept isolated area set close to the vast modern open cast gold mining, is a reminder of the small scale alluvial gold mining that began the gold rush to this region in the mid-1860s.
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In the 19th century the migration of Cornish mining families created a diasporic community with settlements in the United States, Mexico, South Africa and Australia centred on copper, tin and gold ...
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Alluvial gold. These gold nuggets have been mined from river gravels in Otago. The gold has been beaten by boulders in flood waters, then folded back over countless times to give these flattened shapes. Dark impurities visible in the larger nuggets are black mineral sands (possibly magnetite) and the lighter impurities are quartz grains.
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Usually, gold mining requires a permit from NZP&M. However, there are some public fossicking areas in Otago and not too far away from Marlborough where you can freely enjoy recreational gold mining without the need for a permit. Follow this link to find out where these areas are. Golden Bay Golden Bay is not named for its sunshine but its gold.
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The Macraes mine field was first mined for alluvial gold by individual prospectors. This time ended after only 15 years. The underground mining started and was very successful for forty years. During this time 15,000 ounces of gold were recovered from the four mines in the area. The mining almost ended at 1930, only small-scale mining remained.
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The majority of medium impact applications (eg, small/medium scale alluvial gold mining and drilling at numerous locations) generally cost in the range of $4,000 to $8,000 plus GST. High impact applications can cost from $50,000 to more than $100,000 plus GST. Your application should be processed within: 44 working days for low impact applications.
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Bannockburn is a small historic gold mining town located outside of Cromwell in Central Otago, New Zealand. The area was first made known as a rich alluvial gold field and was mined extensively in the 1860s.
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The report examines five separate alluvial (placer) properties in the Central Otago Goldfields in New Zealand''s South Island. Each project, Drybread, Matakanui, Vinegar Hill, Waikaia and Pigburn...
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Blue Spur is the area of the historic Otago Gold Rush town and gold mining fields north of the town of Lawrence in the Clutha District. [1] Name [ edit] The etymology of the term "blue spur" not well known. The gold diggers of the 1860s gold rush went after the gold "on the spur", i.e. in a great hurry/rush.
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Previous studies of alluvial gold in Otago and Southland placer deposits have suggested a gold-mercury association for some deposits derived from Caples Terrane schist, whereas alluvial deposits ...
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Gold itself held no value for the seasonal Maori hunting and gathering parties that inhabited the region from the late 7th century. They arrived from the South Coast in search of meat from the mighty Moa , the Kereru (New Zealand pigeon), eels and foraging for the highly valued Pounamu (Greenstone) which was refined into tools, weapons, ceremonial items and jewellery.
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The Coromandel was declared a goldfield in 1862 after gold was found in the area. Shortly after, in 1867 the Thames goldfield was also proclaimed after negotiations with Maori landowners. In the early days mining and prospecting rights were issued as long as no-one else had a claim over an area, but a century later, in the 1980s, far more ...
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Otago are introduced. 2. MT IDA WATER RACE 2.1 Mining and construction Alluvial gold mining began in Naseby in 1863 (Hamel), using water from the Hogburn and a number of other races from the East Eweburn and the Kyeburn. The disposal of tailings was difficult, because of the lack of flushing water and the relatively flat grade from the
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Gold, Gold in Otago, 1. Old alluvial workings in 20 million year old gravels uplifted about 1000 metres above sea level on the Criffel Range near Wanaka. The old gravels have been mainly eroded away during uplift, leaving small remnants like this. Gold from eroded gravels remains in the soil on surrounding hillsides. 2.
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Aug 4, 2022The Central Otago Schist Belt is renowned for the famous Otago gold rush that began in the 1860s, when alluvial gold was discovered in 'extremely rich' Gabriel's Gully, an area located less than 15km to the east of OPQ gold exploration project. Hard rock gold mining followed but stopped in the early 1900s.
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The Otago Schist of New Zealand and the Klondike Schist of Yukon, Canada both have a long history of gold exploration and mining. The Otago Schist historically produced over 8 Moz (>240 tonnes) of...
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New Zealand's bitterest strike, The early Otago gold rushes had been alluvial but most late 19th-century mining there, in Westland and at Thames was in quartz country, which required expensive machinery.
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Gold mining took two forms - alluvial gravels and quartz bedrock mining. Scheelite was an important ore of tungsten used in the steel industry. It is sometimes found in association with gold bearing deposits, and was also mined in Otago - with the most significant scheelite deposits at Glenorchy and near Macraes, including an area known as ...
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Otago has a rich history of mineral exploration and mining dating back over a century, from the first prospectors who discovered gold and began alluvial operations in the 1800's through to the Macraes Flat open pit mining in the 1990's. The Otago region contains Mesozoic schists, which are well known in New Zealand to host orogenic gold ...
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Gold fossicking is the activity of collecting gold by a stream or river using pans, shovels, and sluice boxes. You can do this in designated public gold fossicking areas. There is a low concentration of alluvial gold (found in soil usually around rivers and streams) within all the gold fossicking areas. On this page:
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Otago Region Legal description Pt Sec 99 Blk IV Waipori SD, Pt Sec 13 Blk XI Tuapeka East SD, Pt Run 51 and Legal Road, Otago Land District. Location description The sites are all located in the Otago Pioneer Quartz (OPQ) Conservation Area near Waipori. This is stewardship land, administered under the Conservation Act 1987.
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There's no need to travel to Rio to win gold, as a large-scale alluvial mining operation near Roxburgh has got resource consent. However, opposing neighbours may appeal. Independent commissioners yesterday released a decision allowing Kokiri Lime Company Ltd to mine on 163ha of land at Coal Creek Flat now used for pastoral farming and horticulture.
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Gold in Otago, 1. Island Block alluvial gold mine (near Roxburgh) after rehabilitation. The mine was developed in an old channel of the Clutha River (flats in foreground) which was abandoned thousands of years ago.
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There are also other small claims being worked in Central Otago, including Golden Bush Mining which is in the "early days" of an alluvial gold-mine operation on 29.5ha of land at Schoolhouse Flat in the Nevis Valley. Director Ray Stewart said the operation was just "getting up and running".
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