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New Zealand, Otago
Lawrence
Gabriels Gully, first Otago gold rush
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
GoldAlso reported: eyes-only: sluiced cliffs, water races, mining relics, interpretive walk.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Where Gabriel Read found gold 'shining like the stars in Orion' in May 1861, triggering the Otago rush, 11,000 diggers within months, now a quiet historic reserve
The 1861 rush and the gully's workings are exhaustively documented in NZ histories and on-site interpretation, sluicing faces and races survive
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Old sluicing faces can slumpWasps in summer
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.