AXG - Antipodes Gold [formerly GEL - Glass Earth]

[elZorro]

Highgrade has a short article talking up Garibaldi's prospects. I think they might have mistaken the normal press byline from Glass Earth into meaning that this is expected to be a huge find. It's spread over a wide area of interest, and there would need to be a lot of drilling first.

Glass Earth has always said that its primary objective is to find large hard-rock deposits of gold, using the latest techniques.


http://www.highgrade.net/article/201...nother_Macraes

More detail from another mining magazine, hmm.


http://www.azomining.com/news.aspx?newsID=6278

James Spedderi, an immigrant from Malta, mined at Garibaldi Diggings from 1864 as a member of a company there. Garibaldi was a popular Italian politician, hence the name given to the area. Within 20 years, Spedderi obtained the lease on nearby land for farming, land which was noted in records to be auriferous, and every effort was made to ensure that mining could be carried out on this area in perpetuity.

From local family records on the net:

Leo Charles Spedderi Dougherty who is the Grandson of James Spedderi and Bridget Sullivan tells us some history of 'Garrawaye'.
James Spedderi who was born in Malta in 1832 arrived in the Naseby gold diggings in 1863. He prospected on Rough Ridge in a deep Gorge which he names Garibaldi after the Italian revolutionary leader Guiseppe Garibaldi. James Spedderi married Irish Colleen Bridget Sullivan in 1865. A split of large farming estates in the Maniototo allowed James to aquire 100 acres in an 1878 ballot. His daughters Bridget Ellen, drew two blocks giving one to her recently married sister Rosina. James' son Lawrence (Larry) also drew a block in a later ballot. The blocks were joined together as one farm 'Garrawaye'. A small sod cottage was built on the farm and later superseded by a four bedroom dwelling in 1901. James Spedderi's wife Bridget died at 35. Daughter Bridget Ellen, called Ellen by the family, cared for her father and brother. Charles and Sarah Dougherty (buried in the Ranfurly cemetry) and their son Patrick arrived in New Zealand. They bought land in Gimmerburn and the Garabaldi gorge becoming neighbours to the Spedderi Family. Bridget Helen married Patrick Dougherty (Poppa to his Grandchildren) in 1909 after her Father James died. (Bridget and James are buried in the Naseby cemetry). Andrew and Neil Kearney, brothers of Charles' wife Sarah Dougherty also immigrated from Ireland taking up land in the Maniototo. Leo and Eileen (nee Elliot) had a family of seven children. Lawrence the second eldest's son Stephen and wife Nicky now run the 3,300 acre sheep and cattle farm.

Video of a trip through the farm by the family, and an old stone cottage at the top.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXuyRxTANk

Hunting trip photos with background photos of the terrain

http://lisawiltse.photoshelter.com/g...000BtCxNQevKeA