Twelve Mile Creek Gold Fossicking Area: Fossicking in Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago
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Twelve 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 Twelve Mile Creek Gold Fossicking Area
Twelve Mile Creek enters Lake Wakatipu at Twelve Mile Delta, 12 km west of Queenstown on the Glenorchy road, and a designated public gold fossicking area covers part of the creek. The delta holds a large DOC campsite on the old river flats, with a sealed road in from the highway, and nearby tracks such as the Mt Crichton Loop thread through country scattered with relics of the Wakatipu gold rush. The delta also stood in for Ithilien Camp in the Lord of the Rings films. Only non-motorised hand tools may be used within the mapped boundary.
Plan your visit
Generally open to casual fossicking
- Area
- Queenstown-Lakes District
- Region
- Otago
- Nearest road
- Glenorchy-Queenstown Road
- Coordinates
- -45.03050, 168.50110
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 Twelve Mile Creek Gold Fossicking Area.
- Five Mile Creek Gold Fossicking AreaQueenstown-Lakes District, Otago · 7 km awayGold
- Tucker Beach (Shotover River) Gold Fossicking AreaQueenstown-Lakes District, Otago · 17 km awayGold
- Arrow River Gold Fossicking AreaQueenstown-Lakes District, Otago · 28 km awayGold
- Gabriels Gully Gold Fossicking AreaClutha District, Otago · 132 km awayGold
- Gemstone BeachSouthland District, Southland · 152 km awayGarnet, Jasper, Quartz
- Jones Creek Gold Fossicking AreaWestland District, West Coast · 299 km awayGold
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