Hi I am new to gold panning, have invested into both bullion and shares in a mining company. Yesterday I was fishing for Khawhai at the Waimakariri Beach and I happened to have my pan there where I was practice panning.
I put two clumps of dirt in the pan and panned it and found two specks of what looked clearly like gold! Unluckily I forgot to take a photo and didn’t recover them. If anyone could give a professional opinion of what these minerals could of been if they were not legitimately gold ?
Also wondering if panning is even allowed to be done at the Waimak ?
Panning is not allowed but I think you would have to be hard done by if you got your hand smacked. Gold would not be on top of the sand as it sinks until it sits on bedrock or clay and there has not been any gold found in the Waimak to my knowledge
Well I’m a Libertarian and think there should be more freedom to pan in more places rather than just 17. They would have to catch you. We don’t live in a communist country lol.
I’m not sure what this stuff was, it was metallic, small, light and flaky, if it was not gold what do you think it could of been ? Plastic.
Has it not been found closer inland by the tributaries of the river going through the alps ?
There’s a fair bit of gold and silver mica flake on South Bank of waimak this year and a lot of blue clay thats never been there before I whitebait there 24/7 during season. Low tide some spots were looking nearly thermal ie looked like 3 small crabs in little holes side by side ya could watch em breathing or sand moving but every couple minutes one of them tiny poof pop and the we mikas popping out at least half of em looking very gold like see it just below surface at low tide for 1 an a bit hrs 150 cumec and below bloody weird.
If I was gonna pan there try down Brookland onto styx there low tide walk up in that swamp grass little tributaries tiny channels wicked hard packed sands shells small stones in amongst packed clay some of the bigger ones gumbootss reqd at low tide to walk em run long way yah feet feel em so hard packed ya near shake when you step down on em, have dig around in there ya get quite bit of colour not really anywhere put sluice though water changes levels to fast supposed to be small garnets in there according to haast, or at least thats what the report i have with me says.