Five Mile Creek Gold Fossicking Area: Fossicking in Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago
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Five Mile Creek Gold Fossicking Area is a mapped fossicking spot in Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago, New Zealand. Reported finds include gold. Below: coordinates, access notes, and nearby spots.
About Five Mile Creek Gold Fossicking Area
Five Mile Creek falls to Lake Wakatipu beside the Glenorchy road about 5 km west of Queenstown, and a section of it is a designated public gold fossicking area listed by New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals. It is one of four fossicking areas in the Queenstown basin, alongside the Arrow River, the Shotover at Tucker Beach and Twelve Mile Creek. Fossicking is limited to non-motorised hand tools such as pans, shovels and sluice boxes within the mapped boundary, and swimming spots and short walks lie nearby.
Plan your visit
Generally open to casual fossicking
- Area
- Queenstown-Lakes District
- Region
- Otago
- Nearest road
- Glenorchy-Queenstown Road
- Coordinates
- -45.02300, 168.58800
Coordinates are approximate. Confirm the exact ground and access before you head out.
Land & fossicking status
Generally open to casual fossicking
Public-tagged New Zealand spots are usually designated public gold fossicking areas under the Crown Minerals Act or beaches where casual collecting of loose stones is accepted. Hand tools only, and check local conditions before you dig.
Stay inside public fossicking areas for gold panning, use hand tools only, and treat DOC reserves and national parks as closed to collecting. Pounamu (greenstone) in the South Island is owned by Ngai Tahu, and collecting it is prohibited apart from a limited beach find you can carry out by hand in one trip.
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Nearby fossicking spots
Other fossicking spots in New Zealand within driving distance of Five Mile Creek Gold Fossicking Area.
- Twelve Mile Creek Gold Fossicking AreaQueenstown-Lakes District, Otago · 7 km awayGold
- Tucker Beach (Shotover River) Gold Fossicking AreaQueenstown-Lakes District, Otago · 10 km awayGold
- Arrow River Gold Fossicking AreaQueenstown-Lakes District, Otago · 21 km awayGold
- Gabriels Gully Gold Fossicking AreaClutha District, Otago · 128 km awayGold
- Gemstone BeachSouthland District, Southland · 156 km awayGarnet, Jasper, Quartz
- Jones Creek Gold Fossicking AreaWestland District, West Coast · 295 km awayGold
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