Gold fever strikes again in Arrowtown

Arrowtown, home for my favourite merino possum store, was featured on TV this week. The town was established as a goldmining town in the 1800s - and you can still be a successful goldminer there! Watch the news videoclip: http://www.3news.co.nz/Gold-fever-strikes-again-in-Central-Otago/tabid/367/articleID/104045/cat/84/Default.aspx

Here's the news story:

Those who catch gold fever say it's a hard one to shake. With the current tough times and the high price of gold, it is nowover $1,500 per ounce and it has all of a sudden become popular againto seek out that speck of gold. For years, prospectors have flocked to the Arrow River of Arrowtown in Central Otago to search for the precious metal. A century-and-half ago, thousands were drawn to the Arrow River all chasing the colour of money. They came from China and Great Britain all in the attempt of making their fortune. The Arrow River was one of the richest gold-bearing rivers in the world," says Justin Eden from the Arrowtown Gold Shop. For its size there was more gold per square-metre there than anywhere else in the world. Today the allure of gold refuses to fade. "A lot of people don't realise that you can still find gold today," Eden said. "They think that it is all gone. There is still a lot here, I am convinced of that. There is people finding gold everyday here. The gold miners got the easy gold in the early days that was recovered easily, but there is a lot of smaller gold - gold that is hidden and still coming out today. So it is still here plenty of it."