New Zealand - Gold Mining
- West Coast
- Sluicing Gold
- Circa 1900
- Man and Equipment
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Mining - gold
- The principal New Zealand goldfields were Coromandel, Nelson/Marlborough, Central Otago and West Coast
- The two main types of gold mine were: 'hard rock' quartz mines, and
alluvial mining which included panning and cradling, sluicing and dredging.
- Considerable prospecting and mining was done during the 1930s depression by people who would otherwise have been unemployed.
- Many of DOC’s managed historic hut sites date to this era.
Reference: read more at https://www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/heritage/heritage-topics/mining-gold/#:~:text=The%20principal%20New%20Zealand%20goldfields,and%20cradling%2C%20sluicing%20and%20dredging.