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Speaker 1: Now there's a bit of angst and Wellington because MB

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Speaker 1: is currently considering a number of applications from people who

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Speaker 1: want to explore for gold right next to Zilandia. One

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Speaker 1: permit has already been issued and it's been issued to

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Speaker 1: Travis MacKaye High Travis May, I'm very well, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So are you going to do some mining? Are you?

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't call it mining so much, but if you

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Speaker 2: on some panning, you're going to.

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Speaker 1: Do some panning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you think we don't have any interest in

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Speaker 2: doing any mining or digging up the land to pull

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Speaker 2: out minerals to destroy something that we came here to enjoy,

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Speaker 2: since that would be stupid.

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Speaker 1: Your permit is just for panning, is it?

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Speaker 2: At the moments? For panning? But we are going for

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Speaker 2: the next level of permit, but that's for a different

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Speaker 2: that's for a different purposes because we have a mining

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Speaker 2: R and D company and that company is exploring different

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Speaker 2: ways of non destructive, non toxic ways of recovering minerals.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, very difficultly, it's a sort of sluicest So

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Speaker 2: just because get getting all the signs right and anything

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Speaker 2: else works out, you can get the fines out without

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Speaker 2: having to use mercury and things like that.

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Speaker 1: Oh right, okay, are you are you convinced that there's

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Speaker 1: gold there?

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Speaker 2: There's gold everywhere, and he's on it's in all the Greeks.

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Speaker 2: There's alluvial gold pretty much everywhere. And we're with there's

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Speaker 2: a mineral spring that feeds up through whatever, then that

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Speaker 2: there's the gold there, but it's there's no more here

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Speaker 2: than there is anywhere else.

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Speaker 1: Is there enough gold to sort of make a living

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Speaker 1: off or is it just for a bit of a hop?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely absolutely not. This is costom me your fortune.

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Speaker 1: Why are you doing in Travis?

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Speaker 2: Because I like building stuff and and I'd like to

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Speaker 2: find a better way of doing it, because my son

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Speaker 2: likes it, and because it's fun. It's singing up my boy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you're just the permits of people in Wellington

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Speaker 1: can settle down. It's just a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: bit of panning and digging and nothing massive.

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Speaker 2: Nothing massive, nothing at all. There's the last thing we

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Speaker 2: want up here, and last thing I wants the whole

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Speaker 2: of people coming up here thinking that they can do

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Speaker 2: that up here, because it's not what this place is about.

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Speaker 2: The space we moved up because it's beautiful. It's an

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Speaker 2: awesome places to live, and we have zero interested ashowing

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Speaker 2: that anyone that comes up here thinking otherwise, and I

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Speaker 2: won't swear, but they can go.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And even the sluicing stuff that you're going to

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Speaker 1: do when you get your next permit, that's not going

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Speaker 1: to make the place look ugly, is it.

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Speaker 2: No, it's so it's the soluice is a dread soluze,

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Speaker 2: so it would literally be removing as it fills. Is one,

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Speaker 2: so I can't stack up any fish or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: It's it's a it's a soft one that gets gravity feed.

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Speaker 2: It's it's all done, and it's quite bulliant, fin insist

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Speaker 2: to myself, but it's it's it's harmless and it just

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Speaker 2: takes gravel of a creek and it pushes it down

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Speaker 2: a little bit further than the cycles back to where

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Speaker 2: it was. All would do really is take out the

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Speaker 2: alga and stuffware from the creek, cleans that out and

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Speaker 2: it's this golden there would find it. But we don't

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Speaker 2: want to do that here anyway. This is frust to

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Speaker 2: make machines that people can use elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, Travis, listen, good luck with that good luck

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Speaker 1: with with the Angst in Wellington as Travis McKay, who's

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Speaker 1: the director of quicksand Limited. For more from Hither Duplassy

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