AXG - Antipodes Gold [formerly GEL - Glass Earth]

[elZorro]

More history - here is the Hartley and Riley dredge which was on the Clutha River gathering staggering gold amounts, from about 1898 to early the next century. This is an early photo, before the covers went over everything. You can see a trommel (the rotating screen) and the massive riffle areas should be where the two blokes are. The elevator to the left would have dumped the washed rocks and gravel back into the river, or onto the banks maybe. Not sure how they got the gravel from the river bed up into the top of the trommel, but it looks like this was an early example of a bucket dredge, which was quickly copied by other startups once the dredge began recovering over 1,000 oz of gold in a week.

This whole huge structure was run by a 10HP or 12HP motor, probably a steam engine.

A bit about the upper Waikaia in this recent thread about a Clutha mining permit for sale.
http://golddredgingforum.proboards.c...lay&thread=938

Dredge designs, IPENZ

The Lady Ranfurly dredge, an electric powered unit, apparently obtained the record weekly production of 1234oz in 1900, on the Kawerau River, now Lake Dunstan. It eclipsed the recent record of the Hartley and Riley dredge.
http://thefieldofgold.blogspot.co.nz...rom-river.html

A strong connection here to Bob Kilgour's family. http://thefieldofgold.blogspot.co.nz...-for-gold.html