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Queenstown Gold
RioGold  
Posted : Thursday, 29 January 2015 11:03:16 PM(UTC)
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Hi all had a great trip to Queenstown! awesome weather and met some great people :)
Did 4 days digging at 12mile creek didn't see much big stuff but still got 4.6grams fun all the same.
the info was much appreciated 12mile is very very cold :) even when the temp is 30'.
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kiwijw  
Posted : Friday, 30 January 2015 6:06:39 AM(UTC)
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Well done. Lot of hard work aye....LOL :) Were you using a sluice box or just classifying & panning? Good effort.
Hope you feed the sand flys. :)

JW :)
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RioGold  
Posted : Friday, 30 January 2015 8:27:30 AM(UTC)
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I've got a little bazooka gold trap sluice which works great! :) believe it or not I didn't find the sand flys too bad lol! there not as bad as the west coast :)
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Jacko  
Posted : Saturday, 31 January 2015 9:41:24 AM(UTC)
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Nice effort mate! :) a beautiful colour in your pan!

Keep up the good work!

Did you try out the other creek at all? (it might be 5 mile?)

Vin
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RioGold  
Posted : Saturday, 31 January 2015 11:01:04 AM(UTC)
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Thanks! :) Na I started digging at 12 mile and decided to stay there, might try that next yr if there's any left lol
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