Explore / Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand, West Coast
Lyell
Buller Gorge creek fossicking and ghost town
Gold ground Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: eyes-only ghost town: gravestones, mine machinery on the walkway uphill.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Lyell boomed on quartz gold in the upper Buller Gorge then burned and faded by the 1900s, today a DOC campsite, cemetery in the bush, and creek fossicking
Lyell Creek is listed among the West Coast public fossicking areas and the ghost town relics are DOC-documented, panning returns here are modest colours
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Cold fast creek waterSandflies, unfenced shafts on the old dray road walks
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.