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Where the Otago gold rush started: Geology of Gabriels Gully The gold at Gabriels Gully is alluvial or placer gold: the gold grains were washed out of quartz veins in the extensive Otago Schist Dave Craw about 100 million years ago. The gold became concentrated in gravel deposits that accumulated in large river fans in a depression caused by fault movement. More recent erosion of these old gravel deposits recycled the gold into the modern stream sediments. Geology Department University of Otago Dunedin The gravels are Quartz pebbles in conglomerate a mixture of white quartz pebbles (Central Otago), greywacke (west), & schist (nearby). The original vein Remaining Blue Spur Conglomerate outcrops. Tunnels followed the gold-bearing layer at the source of the gold schist boundary beneath these outcrops. is unknown Conglomerate with schist cobbles Greywacke cobbles in conglomerate and characteristic blue-green colour Cross section through Gabriels Gully as viewed from the south Fault surface exposed by sluicing. Black rock was crushed by earthquakes, and recemented Blue Spur Conglomerate Top surface of schist, with richest gold above Sluicing tailings fill valley Blue Spur Conglomerate has been sluiced from schist to expose the gold-bearing surface. Some toppled blocks of conglomerate remain. Semischist Schist Sluicing tailings fill valley Sluicing tailings fill valley Tuapeka Fault Clutha River The 100 million year old gravel is called the Blue Spur Conglomerate. ....gold shining like the stars in Orion on a dark The deposit is cemented, like concrete, with calcium carbonate frosty night...... and a blue-green clay mineral that gives the bluish colour. (Gabriel Reed, 1861) Lake Mahinerangi Lawrence & Gabriels Gully Tuapeka Fault Several other Much of the gold from Gabriels Gully was mined from the gold-bearing modern stream sediments. The old gravels are hard and gravel deposits cohesive, and the gold is more sparsely distributed. occur along the However, some miners used sluice hoses, tunnels, Tuapeka Fault and crushing equipment to work the old gravels..

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