The Eurobodalla is now a fossicking district, joining 27 other shires in a program designed to boost tourism.
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Fossicking is the small-scale search for and collection of minerals using hand-held implements, including metal detectors.
Council’s tourism manager Cath Reilly said the declaration had the potential to expand awareness of our mining and geological heritage, with an estimated 50,000 fossickers in NSW, injecting about $20 million into regional economies each year.
Gold panning in an intermittent creek bed. File picture.
