AXG - Antipodes Gold [formerly GEL - Glass Earth]

[elZorro]

Looks like Tinker's Diggings to the South West were very rich, but Drybread offered a bigger area suitable for sluicing.

GEL's two joined exploration permits cover the St Bathan's area down past Tinkers. This area, to one side of the Dunstan Range, was a hotbed of activity for alluvial or placer mining. Layered beds of gold grains ran right through this, so if GEL can find leftover material, these permits will be more valuable using the latest equipment with the higher gold price.

My only reservation is the St Bathans/Blue Lake area, being a prime site for very old fossils, some seeming to prove that not all of NZ sank beneath the waves before popping back up, to be repopulated with flora and fauna from other places. While the fossils were probably only discovered because of earlier mining, there should be special rules for that part of the permit.

Things I didn't know I didn't know..