Australia, New South Wales
Ophir, New South Wales
Mineral locality Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Crystals and mineralsPhotos 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: alluvial gold
Site of Australia's first payable gold discovery (1851), documented in NSW mining history.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Creek work
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