Story: Gold and gold mining All images & media From page 1 – As good as gold First mines Depression prospectors Gold and silver production, 1857–2004 From page 2 – Where you find it New Zealand’s goldfields Gold ring Weighing silver Gold-bearing quartz Alluvial gold Shotover River From page 3 – Otago Edward Peters (1st of 3) Gabriels Gully (2nd of 3) First miner’s right (3rd of 3) First gold discovery at Dunstan Otago cavalcade, 2005 Prospectus Macetown, 1900 (1st of 2) Macetown, 1982 (2nd of 2) From page 4 – West Coast Ōkarito Beach mining Free pardon Mining batteries Sluicing Diseased and healthy lung (1st of 2) The Jones family (2nd of 2) From page 5 – Coromandel Peninsula Ye diggings, 1852 Golden pyramid Stamper battery Cyanide vats Crushed quartz From page 6 – Other goldfields Wakamarina Gorge, 1890 Chinese temple, Round Hill Cape Terawhiti Queenstown courthouse From page 7 – Methods of mining Sluice and cradle, Kapanga Stream Water race St Bathans (1st of 2) Blue Lake (2nd of 2) Kawarau Falls Dam, 1925 From page 8 – Dredging Spoon dredge, Buller River, 1895 Wheel and steam dredge (1st of 3) Dredge buckets (2nd of 3) Choie Sew Hoy’s dredge (3rd of 3) Gold dredge Northburn tailings Dredge in a pond, 1995 From page 9 – Miners Ballarat, Australia, 1855 Miners’ origins Macetown children, 1902 Gabriels Gully jubilee From page 10 – Māori and Chinese miners Arahura River mouth, 1846 Coromandel Harbour, 1852 Mr Punch’s welcome Chinese settlement, Arrowtown Pakapoo ticket From page 11 – Recent mining Gold production in New Zealand, 1850s–2000s Digger and gold plant Ross, West Coast Martha mine Golden Cross mine, 1995 (1st of 2) Golden Cross mine, 2001 (2nd of 2) Anti-mining protesters From page 12 – Gold and the economy Simpson and Hart’s brewery, 1904 Electricity comes to Reefton School of mines furnaces Testing gold New Zealand gold production by region Frasers pit
