Jones Creek Gold Fossicking Area: Fossicking in Westland District, West Coast
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Jones Creek Gold Fossicking Area is a mapped fossicking spot in Westland District, West Coast, New Zealand. Reported finds include gold. Below: coordinates, access notes, and nearby spots.
About Jones Creek Gold Fossicking Area
Jones Creek flows beside Mount Greenland Road at the edge of Ross, a gold town 30 km south of Hokitika on State Highway 6, and part of the creek is set aside for permit-free fossicking with hand-held, non-motorised tools. Alluvial gold is present, though concentrations are low, and signs at the creek mark the boundaries and rules. The Ross Goldfield Water Race Walkway starts near the Ross Goldfields Information and Heritage Centre at the end of Aylmer Street and follows an old water race through regenerating forest past tunnels, dam sites and a replica miner's hut.
Plan your visit
Generally open to casual fossicking
- Area
- Westland District
- Region
- West Coast
- Coordinates
- -42.90870, 170.80670
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 Jones Creek Gold Fossicking Area.
- Hokitika BeachWestland District, West Coast · 25 km awayPounamu, Quartz
- Shamrock Creek (Goldsborough) Gold Fossicking AreaWestland District, West Coast · 37 km awayGold
- Nelson Creek Gold Fossicking AreaGrey District, West Coast · 80 km awayGold
- Moonlight Creek Gold Fossicking AreaGrey District, West Coast · 86 km awayGold
- Slab Hut Creek Gold Fossicking AreaBuller District, West Coast · 116 km awayGold
- Stony and Britannia Streams Gold Fossicking AreaBuller District, West Coast · 157 km awayGold
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