Is it legal to collect at Pilgrim's Rest: gold panning at the 1873 diggings?

Licence or permit. Panning is a paid, guided activity booked via the town information centre and Diggings Site tours; freelance panning in the creek is not permitted in the provincial heritage site

What can you find at Pilgrim's Rest: gold panning at the 1873 diggings?

gold colour in the pan (kept as souvenir flakes on guided digs), Victorian mining relics eyes-only around the Diggings Site Museum

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Pilgrim's Rest

Gold panning at the 1873 diggings

Gold ground Documented siteLicence or permit

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Gold

Also reported: Victorian mining relics eyes-only around the Diggings Site Museum.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: alluvial goldfield of 1873 on Pilgrim's Creek, now a whole-town national monument and living museum where visitors book panning experiences

Wikipedia documents the 1873 Alec Patterson strike and heritage-town status; Panorama Route page confirms annual National Gold Panning Championships and bookable visitor panning