New Zealand - Chinese goldminers ground sluicing at Blackwater, West Coast - Scene at Blackwater, Inangahua County. A group of four Chinese goldminers are sluicing for gold with a ground sluice. - Circa 1915 - William Archer Price photo Mining for gold - A small prospecting group discovered a gold-bearing quartz reef near the upper reaches of Blackwater Creek, a tributary of the Grey River, on 9 November 1905. - As the discovery was made on King Edward VII's birthday, it was loyally named the Birthday Reef. - The rights were subsequently purchased by Consolidated Goldfields (NZ) Ltd, a large British-owned company that dominated the Reefton quartz mining industry. - The company invested heavily to develop a mine and processing plant as well as a town for their workers (Reference: NZ History) --------------------- Image source: Chinese goldminers ground sluicing at Blackwater, West Coast. Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives. Ref: PAColl-3057-1-07. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23155392 https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23155392