Goldsborough: DOC public gold fossicking area

Where: New Zealand · Oceania · approx. -42.7, 171.06 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: heart of the 1865 Waimea rush that once held thousands of diggers, now one of the gazetted West Coast public gold fossicking areas with a DOC campsite

What turns up: gold flakes and colours in the pan, black sand, garnets in concentrates

Access: Open / legal.

One of the public gold fossicking areas on conservation land, no permit needed for recreational fossicking, hand tools only (pan, shovel, sluice box), no machinery, personal use

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.