Is it legal to collect at Moliagul-Dunolly: Golden Triangle diggings?

Licence or permit. Detecting is legal in the surrounding state forests and designated Crown land with a Victorian Miner's Right (a small-fee licence), it does not cover private paddocks, and disturbing registered historic mining features or archaeological relics is prohibited

What can you find at Moliagul-Dunolly: Golden Triangle diggings?

gold nuggets, colonial coins, buttons, buckles, tools, camp refuse glass and clay pipes on old diggings

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Australia, Victoria

Moliagul-Dunolly

Golden Triangle diggings

Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsLicence or permit

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Gold

Coins and tokens

Buttons and buckles

Also reported: tools, camp refuse glass and clay pipes on old diggings.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

Heart of Victoria's Golden Triangle: Moliagul rushed from 1852 and produced the 72 kg Welcome Stranger nugget in 1869, Dunolly's field held 12000 diggers in 1857

Wikipedia's Dunolly entry records the district as a favourite modern metal-detecting ground including 4 kg and 4.3 kg nuggets found 2016-17, gold-rush camp relics come up alongside the gold