Its pretty hungry looking quartz, very white with not alot of sulfides showing. But follow it as far as you can up the bank and onto any flood terraces and take samples from any quartz that is weathered, rusty or has dark blotches and bands. Cook it on a fire and crush it to test for free gold.
If the quartz vein intersects a river or stream it will have acted as a very good riffel and could be loaded with gold. 
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Not sure if l put this photo on but it is nearly 32 grams from the Arrow. 1/6th of an afternoon.
If l have put it on before then senility is inevitable and l am too lazy to check.
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I might have to agree with you on your last two comments. Pretty sure you have put that up before but hey it is still good to see a decent bit of colour. Far better than my piddly 6 bits detecting on Saturday for not even 1 gram. 
But better than a poke in the eye with a blunt matagouri stick. Got stabbed by a few of those on my mission but thankfully not in my eye. Still drew blood though.
JW 
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Beautiful gold. Worn enough to clean it up a bit, but still has character
I dont clean it but keep it as it is. Then l can identify more or less where its from.
It is nice gold from the Arrow.
Memories of the good old days!
Am currently in Auckland and was going to go out to the Coromandel for a few days but transports got me beat and also cant contact my friend there…bugger.
A selection of fools gold found in my hut paddock sitting on a piece of quartz from a reef that must exist in the hut paddock and which has a nugget of about 1.5 grams poking out of it.
It cant be gold because our resident expert told us theres no gold on my place
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that piece of quartz with nugget sitting in it is very very cool nice piece man
LOL, I must have missed that one. Who was it?
I’m loving all the gold porn though so please keep it coming! 
Cant remember his forum name only his real name.
Lived down south and was a subspecies of human which came under the genus ‘Neanderthalus fuckwitus retardus.’
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Some nuggets taken from a crevice in a gold claim we have or had.
Average weight a few grains over 4 grams.
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Another gold enthusiasts looking around finding nothing but bits and peaces unless your corporate
Not correct and far from the truth. Do you know where to go? Do you know how to go about gold fossicking?
We were never what you seem to call ‘corporate’ - in fact thats a laugh! We are and are merely guys who like gold fossicking and take out claims to protect our interests AND not one of those pieces of gold nor any other I show here was found with machinery or in some cases with one or two of NZs first underwater or floating dredges and they were primitive compared to what you use today!
Nothing what so ever to do with corporate enterprises but a lot to do with knowing what and where and how to go about it!
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From crevices or a single crevice? Beaut gold regardless!
All but one from the same crevice. That was only a selection from that particular spot.
Holy heck! That’s incredible
Not really. I have seen just as good back in the day…and better. On two of our claims there was virtually no such thing as fine gold. I have another photo of the best dozen nuggets I had out of another crevice - must look the photo out.
Come on Lammerlaw show us some big nuggs!!.. we want to see some chunky gold please!!..lol
Mal - According to the expert theres no gold where we go…its an illusion.
Strangely enough there are those who actually think there might be gold on our claim as the neighbour caught a poacher. Police have been involved.
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I was at the arrow town gold shop today. Spent a good while chatting to the owner of the store and drooling over the various gold nuggets and specimens he brought out of his safe. He’s well worth goin to see for a yarn!
I have chatted to him. He knew my uncle and my uncles finds back in the early days when he first started up.
The Arrow was the place to go. 6 ounces in a couple of hours with me about 1977 and on his own 8 ounces under the Arrow River bridge.
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