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<blockquote data-quote="Goldpick" data-source="post: 43974" data-attributes="member: 1695"><p>Jupiter Creek is probably the most easily accessible spot, despite being cleaned out time and time again, relics and small gold can still be found here if you are willing to put the effort in - lots of hot rocks! Chapel Hill is overgrown, pick pocketed with lots of dangerous and sometimes near invisible shafts, has high tension powerlines running through it (PI unfriendly), and is only really good for very small pickers with high frequency VLF detectors on the shaft spoil piles. Lots of rubbish around Chapel Hill too.</p><p></p><p>Mount Crawford is further out of town, but with some wide open spaces to detect due to some of the pine trees being harvested a while back (current harvesting areas are sign posted and out of bounds), people still seem to find gold here, you will usually see a few guys out there on weekends detecting. As mentioned, head to the Forestry headquarter to pay the daily fee, fill out some details, pop it in an envelope, and away you go. Plenty of gullies to explore, but you will have to walk a long way to get to most of them unfortunately due to the lock it up and throw away the key govt mentality.</p><p></p><p>The dept of resources in SA really needs to think seriously about opening up some new areas to fossicking, there are plenty of areas in the pine plantations outside of the Mt Crawford fossicking reserve that could be very interesting. I suspect people still visit these areas regardless of whether fossicking is allowed or not, probably at night. </p><p></p><p>As mentioned, all areas are out of bounds on fire ban days, better off at the beach detecting anyway, will probably find more. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goldpick, post: 43974, member: 1695"] Jupiter Creek is probably the most easily accessible spot, despite being cleaned out time and time again, relics and small gold can still be found here if you are willing to put the effort in - lots of hot rocks! Chapel Hill is overgrown, pick pocketed with lots of dangerous and sometimes near invisible shafts, has high tension powerlines running through it (PI unfriendly), and is only really good for very small pickers with high frequency VLF detectors on the shaft spoil piles. Lots of rubbish around Chapel Hill too. Mount Crawford is further out of town, but with some wide open spaces to detect due to some of the pine trees being harvested a while back (current harvesting areas are sign posted and out of bounds), people still seem to find gold here, you will usually see a few guys out there on weekends detecting. As mentioned, head to the Forestry headquarter to pay the daily fee, fill out some details, pop it in an envelope, and away you go. Plenty of gullies to explore, but you will have to walk a long way to get to most of them unfortunately due to the lock it up and throw away the key govt mentality. The dept of resources in SA really needs to think seriously about opening up some new areas to fossicking, there are plenty of areas in the pine plantations outside of the Mt Crawford fossicking reserve that could be very interesting. I suspect people still visit these areas regardless of whether fossicking is allowed or not, probably at night. As mentioned, all areas are out of bounds on fire ban days, better off at the beach detecting anyway, will probably find more. ;) [/QUOTE]
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