Moonlight Creek Gold Fossicking Area: Fossicking in Grey District, West Coast
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Moonlight Creek Gold Fossicking Area is a mapped fossicking spot in Grey District, West Coast, New Zealand. Reported finds include gold. Below: coordinates, access notes, and nearby spots.
About Moonlight Creek Gold Fossicking Area
Moonlight Creek drains the southern Paparoa Range into the Grey Valley and carries a public gold fossicking area, reached from the Atarau side of the Grey River northeast of Greymouth via Moonlight Valley Road to Andersons Flat. DOC requires fossickers here to stay within the active streambed and use hand tools only. From Andersons Flat the historic Moonlight Pack Track heads upvalley past walls of stacked stone tailings from old gold claims and the remains of the Moonlight quartz stamping battery above the river. Blue duck (whio) are sometimes seen along the riverbed.
Plan your visit
Generally open to casual fossicking
- Area
- Grey District
- Region
- West Coast
- Coordinates
- -42.30030, 171.45380
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 Moonlight Creek Gold Fossicking Area.
- Nelson Creek Gold Fossicking AreaGrey District, West Coast · 13 km awayGold
- Slab Hut Creek Gold Fossicking AreaBuller District, West Coast · 32 km awayGold
- Shamrock Creek (Goldsborough) Gold Fossicking AreaWestland District, West Coast · 49 km awayGold
- Hokitika BeachWestland District, West Coast · 62 km awayPounamu, Quartz
- Stony and Britannia Streams Gold Fossicking AreaBuller District, West Coast · 72 km awayGold
- Lyell Creek Gold Fossicking AreaBuller District, West Coast · 74 km awayGold
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