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"Bugger"
Just check the list online and a spot that I have prospected and sweated, fell over rocks and got bogged twice has suddenly appeared on the list............

How do I know for sure ?????
I printed the list when I first got interested in this area an stapled it to the back of my miners right...

Can anyone tell me how you find out when a creek was added???

By the way this not in the Bendigo area... sorry to hijack the thread but it seem relevant

Cheers
 
Occasional_panner said:
Jeeeez this isn't good. When did you print that list out Bazz?
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I'm not exactly sure, I'll need to go back on some other things to be sure but I'm thinking 12 to 18 months but that's a guess........

The other thing, probably not related is a name change, shows new name / formely blah blah blah
 
So can you or can't you pan in the Bendigo creek.. bendigo advertiser, alluvial prospectors page have articles with panning underway in the creek hmm
 
hmmmmm! is right!!

Maybe you could contact the paper and ask the question, " why and who " considering it's a no no ?? and see who they blame!! ]:D

Anyway that's my approach....

Bazz
 
Bazz said:
"Bugger"
Just check the list online and a spot that I have prospected and sweated, fell over rocks and got bogged twice has suddenly appeared on the list............

How do I know for sure ?????
I printed the list when I first got interested in this area an stapled it to the back of my miners right...

Can anyone tell me how you find out when a creek was added???

By the way this not in the Bendigo area... sorry to hijack the thread but it seem relevant

Cheers
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Glad I'm not the only one to notice. I have hunted high and low for the provided by the DPI (you know the department of many names ) about 4 years ago but can't find it, I do however have my map where I plotted red for exempted and blue for not on the list so I'll be looking into this...This is mental.

There are several threads in PA that have a copied and pasted list from before that have omissions based on the current list. .
 
OldGT said:
Bazz said:
"Bugger"
Just check the list online and a spot that I have prospected and sweated, fell over rocks and got bogged twice has suddenly appeared on the list............

How do I know for sure ?????
I printed the list when I first got interested in this area an stapled it to the back of my miners right...

Can anyone tell me how you find out when a creek was added???

By the way this not in the Bendigo area... sorry to hijack the thread but it seem relevant

Cheers
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Glad I'm not the only one to notice. I have hunted high and low for the provided by the DPI (you know the department of many names ) about 4 years ago but can't find it, I do however have my map where I plotted red for exempted and blue for not on the list so I'll be looking into this...This is mental.

There are several threads in PA that have a copied and pasted list from before that have omissions based on the current list. .
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Yeah, I got the list that I printed, so I'm just planning how to get some answers!! ( if that's at all possible )
 
Been looking around seems like it has been on the list before, so there you go.

So I can't advocate having a scratch around in there but I can tell you if you did you'd get gold....well what's been left behind since the creek was dredged at least. I have no other suggestions for Bendigo that has year round water that is publically accessable...You could try talking to the. blokes from Miners Den might be able to point you in the right direction . Otherwise there's some spots in the Whipstick that I've had a dig at, few seasonal flows and some dams in the area.
 
OldGT said:
Been looking around seems like it has been on the list before, so there you go.

So I can't advocate having a scratch around in there but I can tell you if you did you'd get gold....well what's been left behind since the creek was dredged at least. I have no other suggestions for Bendigo that has year round water that is publically accessable...You could try talking to the. blokes from Miners Den might be able to point you in the right direction . Otherwise there's some spots in the Whipstick that I've had a dig at, few seasonal flows and some dams in the area.
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Miners den here in Bendigo sent me to the Bendigo creek
 
I'll pull out my maps on Friday and give you some gullies to have a look at, at least you can grab some dirt, might be lucky and have a few puddles around to have a swirl. I'll put a list together of places I did find gold you can try.

Only other one I can think of that I heard there was gold but never got around to digging was Sheep wash creek in Strathfeildsaye that has water all year round. If you look at the cutting on the hillside after you go over the bridge from bendigo to Strathfeildsaye as you round the bend (between the Oval and the carwash) that always looked like prime Bendigo ground to me, like the tail end of the gold zone that runs from the lake towards the Hills in the national park. The lake side has produced gold and is why Axe creek and Emu creek are on the list. Sheep wash might be worth a dig, I just couldn't tell you where to start, I never got there. I drove it over twice a day 4 days a week and looked at that cutaway 1000s of times, but only heard from a long time local about Sheepwash the last fortnight I was there.

Best I've got until Friday.
 
Goldpanner16 said:
Miners den here in Bendigo sent me to the Bendigo creek
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Better send them the exempt list then. It's pretty ordinary that a retailer of Miners Den's repute give out that information.
 
RM Outback said:
Goldpanner16 said:
Miners den here in Bendigo sent me to the Bendigo creek
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Better send them the exempt list then. It's pretty ordinary that a retailer of Miners Den's repute give out that information.
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It's not that surprising...I got pointed there too by another now defunct gold retailer formerly of Bendigo.
 
Hey

I spent an hour or so on the phone to the Northern and Eastern resources manager for DPI and his comments were interesting even though I think that I've heard them before .........

!. He claims that the list hasn't (to his knowledge) changed since 2015 and then it was only a minor change before that he claims that it did not change for "friggin" ages.

2. They are aware that some media and even shire councils are directing punters into creeks that are on the list, but are unsure what to do as this behaviour promotes
tourism.

3. He doesn't think that their inspectors would move in on someone who was panning in an exempt creek.....
... as long as it was low impact ie. pans and small sluice, holes are filled in and you only leave foot prints

So if you are responsible you'll be given a break, mainly because DPI could find themselves between a rock and a hard place, if they arc up and scare away tourists blah blah blah the shires will cry bloody murder.

However as for the local shire inspectors playing gold police, it's not their thing and they should F Off (my words not his)

Hope this clears the water :cool: :cool:

PS There is no way to be notified when/if the list changes, just keep checking the online version
 
Bazz said:
Hey

I spent an hour or so on the phone to the Northern and Eastern resources manager for DPI and his comments were interesting even though I think that I've heard them before .........

!. He claims that the list hasn't (to his knowledge) changed since 2015 and then it was only a minor change before that he claims that it did not change for "friggin" ages.

2. They are aware that some media and even shire councils are directing punters into creeks that are on the list, but are unsure what to do as this behaviour promotes
tourism.

3. He doesn't think that their inspectors would move in on someone who was panning in an exempt creek.....
... as long as it was low impact ie. pans and small sluice, holes are filled in and you only leave foot prints

So if you are responsible you'll be given a break, mainly because DPI could find themselves between a rock and a hard place, if they arc up and scare away tourists blah blah blah the shires will cry bloody murder.

However as for the local shire inspectors playing gold police, it's not their thing and they should F Off (my words not his)

Hope this clears the water :cool: :cool:

PS There is no way to be notified when/if the list changes, just keep checking the online version
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That clear up a bit thanks mate
 
Guys not arguing and most likely my thoughts are not correct

I read the Earth Resources web page and it lists (at the botton of the page) Prohibited Crown Land
it then has a link to exempted Rivers Creeks and Streams

I would have thought that anything on the exempted list is good to go to for panning.

(I am in NSW and trying to plan some areas in Vic. to go to as well next month that is why I am trying to get this figured)
 
NeilM said:
Guys not arguing and most likely my thoughts are not correct

I read the Earth Resources web page and it lists (at the botton of the page) Prohibited Crown Land
it then has a link to exempted Rivers Creeks and Streams

I would have thought that anything on the exempted list is good to go to for panning.

(I am in NSW and trying to plan some areas in Vic. to go to as well next month that is why I am trying to get this figured)
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Hi

Yep! we Mexicans do it a little different......

If said creek/river is on the exempt list then it's a no go creek, Go figure!!!

There is about a 100 other titles they could have given the list, but there you go, some bureaucrats have way too much time to think up ways to piss other people off ;) ;) ;)
 
Bazz said:
NeilM said:
Guys not arguing and most likely my thoughts are not correct

I read the Earth Resources web page and it lists (at the botton of the page) Prohibited Crown Land
it then has a link to exempted Rivers Creeks and Streams

I would have thought that anything on the exempted list is good to go to for panning.

(I am in NSW and trying to plan some areas in Vic. to go to as well next month that is why I am trying to get this figured)
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Hi

Yep! we Mexicans do it a little different......

If said creek/river is on the exempt list then it's a no go creek, Go figure!!!

There is about a 100 other titles they could have given the list, but there you go, some bureaucrats have way too much time to think up ways to piss other people off ;) ;) ;)
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looking at the number of " exempted rivers and creeks " the bastardz would have used less ink if they just listed the ones were are permitted to use .
 

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