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Drake gold and silver field

Gold ground Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Volcanic-hosted gold and silver district in the border ranges worked since the 1880s

Documented in northern New South Wales mining records.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

old workings

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