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New Zealand, Otago

St Bathans

Blue Lake sluicings

Old dump ground Inferred from historyRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Old bottlesOld bottles

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Otago gold town beside the man-made Blue Lake left by sluicing

Historical inference; no documented digs found.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Old workingsTailings, remote alpine ground.

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