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Hi jason what sort of gear do you have? when you mean no avail do you mean zilch! or...not much?

o yes well basically all i was going to suggest was to do pritty much what you are doing already buy checking out those coal cracks....a freind of mine once told me about the waimumu stream he seem,d to think that was worth a look though i dont think its ever been noted for any nuggets but if your in gore at least it,s not to far to travle for a bit of color.

Yea my m8 he found a bit in the banks were the old dredges havent worked...or for that matter the trommel operators i dont no how much of the creek you have seen but seemly if you go a couple of k,s bellow that gold mine thats operating (do you no were that is?) every couner has got a big pile of tailings so must be something worth wile ther for them....or not!
as for the mataura i believe some1 has a claim on it at the mo so may pay to tred carefully as some of these fellas can get a wee bit grumpy...another place thats worth a mention would be the clutha thers a lot of scope ther but again its gota claim on it so i gess it depends on weather your actually working the river or perhaps the odd terrece above it or beach for that matter....i suppose

Yes thats were the mine is.as for the gold comeing from the hills well im farely shure its all glaicer stuff so wilst ther maybe gold in them thar hills its probly in the same quantity as down the waimumu area haveing said that to my knollage ther isnt any old diggings up in the hills though ther is a couple of old water races but i think that had something to do with the coal pits they were digging out of ther to run the dredges down further at waimumu.the only reference iv found to any nuggety stuff in the gore area was out at waikaka the gold was described as "shotty" but that was when the gold feilds were 1st descoverd.really if you want the chance to find anything of any size youd be better off driveing up to otago sumwere.actually i did here a story about a farmer drilling for water down at edendale way and found a 3ounce nugget...bealieve it...or not!