Story: Gold and gold mining

More links and websites

• An Outline of the mining history of New Zealand

  A PDF (3.5 KB) published in 2001 describing gold mining in New Zealand.

• Golden Cross Mine, New Zealand: Closure and Rehabilitation

  An article providing the history of the mining and restoration of the Golden Cross mine on Coromandel Peninsula.

• Explore New Zealand Gold

  A brief outline of how and where to go gold fossicking in New Zealand.

• Otago gold

  The Otago University geology department, Gold research

• Recycling and chemical mobility of alluvial gold

  This paper (PDF, 1.74 MB) by J. Youngson and D. Craw, published in the New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics in 1996, which summarises the occurrence of alluvial gold in Otago.

More suggestions and sources

• De La Mare, A. J. The Shotover River, the richest river in the world: a history of gold mining on the Shotover River. Arrowtown: Lakes District Museum, 1993.
• Ell, Gordon. Gold rush: tales & traditions of the New Zealand goldfields. Auckland: Bush, 1995.
• Latham, Darrell. The golden reefs: an account of the great days of quartz-mining at Reefton, Waiuta & the Lyell. Nelson: Nikau, 1992.
• May, Philip Ross. The West Coast gold rushes. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1967.
• Moore, Phil, and Neville Ritchie. Coromandel gold: a guide to the historic goldfields of Coromandel Peninsula. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 1996.
• Olssen, Erik, and Tom Field. Relics of the goldfields: Central Otago. Dunedin: McIndoe, 1976.