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New Zealand, Otago
Bendigo, Otago
Quartz-reef ghost town and Logantown ruins
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: eyes-only: stone cottage ruins, battery sites, mullock heaps, rusted machinery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Otago's richest quartz-reef field above the Clutha, stone cottages of Bendigo, Logantown and Welshtown with batteries, shafts and mullock heaps from the 1860s-1900s
DOC-managed historic reserve with standing ruins and interpretive signs, surface relics documented in heritage inventories
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Unfenced open mine shafts are a genuine killer hereStay on tracks, summer heat and no water
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