Would you like more public gold fossicking areas? After talking to a large number of prospectors this summer I have decided to start a petition to the house of representatives (Govt) to ask the the house to consider creating additional public gold fossicking areas in New Zealand. It’s currently still in draft form but should be completed by next week ready for signing. It will be a hybrid petition so can be signed by either following the link to the House of Parliament website or signed on the official hard copy form. I’m hoping for at least 5000 signatures but 10k to 15k+ signatures would carry more weigh and hopefully get the attention of MP’s from the minor parties to jump on the band wagon just before the election. Closing date is 12th August so this gives us 3 months to get as many signatures as possible. You can help by not only signing it yourself but also sending the link to as many fellow NZ prospectors as you can. You can also download the official petition sign in form, print it out and collect as many written signatures as you can, maybe some of us can head down to your nearest public fossicking area and collect signatures onsite. All paper forms will need to be sent to my postal address. I have consulted a fair few people in the gold prospecting community, industry, consultants and regulators on this and I think it’s the best way forward. If your interested in helping push this petition please feel free to email me at malsgoldadventures@gmail.com as I would really appreciate your help. This petition if successful or not will send a clear message to the govt that the gold prospecting community of NZ wants this to happen, Govt would then hopefully send directive to MBIE and give NZP&M a clear mandate to start this process. NZP&M have done some preliminary work on this already. Yes this may take years but fundamentally this is about the right of recreational gold prospectors in NZ to prospect for gold without the need for a permit for now and generations to come(national anthem playing in the background ..lol!) Hopefully we’ll get to help decide where these new public fossicking areas would be located. I’m sure many of us have some good suggestions. We may need to introduce a code of ethics similar to the DOC one to address environmental concerns to get it across the line. I’ll keep you all updated of progress in the coming days/weeks. cheers Mal Blown (Mal’s Gold Adventures!)
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