I kid you not. This is a picture of the pay dirt heap at the Waihi Gold mine. The spoil from the mine is carried about 2 km from the open cast mine in town to the Baxter's Road site where the waste is accumulating in the form of a hill inversely proportional to the depth of the hole. When they send the gold bearing ore through, its diverted in the building that you see, up the conveyor belt at the side & on to the heap that you see. I wouldn't bother trying to flog a spoonful or two though. I think that the yield is currently about 6 parts per million or less. This is one of the interesting places that I get to visit in the course of my job..
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