The Gold Prospecting Logger

17/03/2025

Got to love Mondays up at 2am drive to Queenstown then do a 10 hour day 🙂

13/03/2025

This is an interesting read about the otago gold rush 🙂

The Otago gold rush (often called the Central Otago gold rush) was a gold rush that occurred during the 1860s in Central Otago, New Zealand. This was the country's biggest gold strike, and led to a rapid influx of foreign miners to the area – many of them veterans of other hunts for the precious m...

13/03/2025

Found me a nice wee spot on the Arrow River this week 🙂

05/03/2025

05/03/2025

Tiimmberrrr off the cliff, felling 50 60m NZ Oregon ie Douglas Fir trees.

05/03/2025

An enjoyable couple hours sluicing the Arrow River tonight, loving the bushmans repellent 😂 Rivers cooling down and the days are getting shorter

23/02/2025

Panning out my concentrates back in Dunedin

23/02/2025

Another fine week Forcast, making the most of the day wont be long and it will be too dark at nights to go for a sluice. Winter is on it way the days are getting shorter

20/02/2025

Some of the scars left at Bannockburn from sluicing back in the gold rush days forever changing the topography of the land

19/02/2025

A miners hut on the edge of the Kawarau River

12/02/2025

Another monument along the Arrow River, I've read the Arrow River replenishes it's gold , obviously there isn't as much as there use to be before the Great Gold rush days but there still has to be nuggets in there to be found