OR print the Google form and hand it in at registration.
As there is an entry fee to get into the grounds, panners will need to show their registration to gain free entry.
We always need help with set up and break down, so if you would be able to help please let us know. Even just hanging around at the end to help us get home before dark! Many hands make light work….
If you won a trophy last year please make sure it has been cleaned and is shiny and ready to bring with you on the day to try to win it back! If you are not attending this year please arrange for its return by 16th September 2022 to Amanda at Nomad Safaris, 2 Industrial Place, Queenstown or The OGHT office 52 Erris Street Cromwell.
Hi mate. The times vary depending on what type of pan you use. The competition flat/speed pans can pan the 10kg or so of gravel in well under 2min. Classic steel pans in around 3 min. I use a big green garret pan and a classic pan depending on my mood and the feel of the gravel. My panning times are around 4 min and I sneak into finals here is a pic of the 2021 open event final times Log into Facebook | Facebook
Cheers for that, interesting.
Many years back in aussie, an old time miner was telling me about panning comps between the local miners and the chinese miners.
To the somewhat disliking of the locals the chinese were very fast and efficiant panners and would pan thru all the tailings getting just as much GOLD as the locals…
Anyhows he went on to say that around 11 seconds down to the smalls was the time…
Ive tried it using lead and the results were surprising.
The competition was great as was the Alexandra Blossom Festival.
Staci Lind won the title of New Zealand Champion so a big congratulations to her.
Yours truly came 1st place in the classic pan event. I will flop it out and show a photo of my big trophy
And a lonely flake of gold detected in a well hunted location so was happy
Well done Sean. How many shotgun pellets did you also get in the process? I got more than my fair share of those little bastards. You did one bit of gold better than I did in there that day but I did find some Moa bones.
Well done on the gold panning too.
I found quite a few shot pellets. I figured if i keep digging them up one will turn yellow. No moa bones for me I got distracted with the geology of all the different workings. Good to see you
What are your thoughts on the geology of the workings? Old river deposits I reckon. Did you notice the amount of greywacke? Nearest greywacke I think is the Hawkduns.
That of course depends which workings you went to. If you go higher up it is different & could be glacial as there aren’t rounded river stones.
I took numerous people to see them over a period of years & on one of my last visits the sheep had all but destroyed them. It was then I decided to take them. I gathered up all the broken & shattered bits that I could find. They sat in a sack in my garage for a number of years as I was so disappointed in the damage the sheep had done to them. As you can see in the pics it was a real jigsaw puzzle in putting them back together. Unfortunatly nowhere near as good as what they were when I first came across them.
I saw a cobble of near similar to kyeburn breccia but the caples terrain has similar cobbles. Looks also there to be some quartz conglomerate that has been faulted and cut by hillside colluvium and very well cemented creek sediments which have also infilled chasms. Was nice too meet you too mate. Happy hunting.
here is a pic of the 2021 open event final times 
