GOLD NUGGETS OF NEW ZEALAND | Gold Dredging Forum
Nov 13, 2008· About 100 European diggers worked alluvial in Lyell Creek during 1863 and the creek soon became renowned for coarse, nugget gold. Nuggets weighing 17 ounces, 30 ounces, and even 52 ounces, were found in the early years of mining on the Lyell.