This report on minerals, including uranium, by
Tony Christie and Bob Brathwaite is in the Crown
minerals section of the Ministry of Economic
Development website.
This paper (PDF, 4.8 MB) describes the uranium
mineralisation discovered in the lower Buller Gorge
in 1955. It was published in the New Zealand
Journal of Geology & Geophysics
(1958).
More suggestions and sources
Bolitho, Elaine E. ‘There’s uranium in them thar
hills.’ In Reefton School of Mines, 1886–1970:
stories of Jim Bolitho, 110–118. Reefton:
Friends of Waiuta in association with Reefton
School of Mines and the Bolitho family, 1999.
Nathan, S., M. R. Rattenbury, and R. P. Suggate.
‘Geology of the Greymouth area.’ Institute of
Geological and Nuclear Sciences Geological Map
12. Wellington: Institute of Geological and
Nuclear Sciences, 2003.
Nicholson, D. S. ‘Wartime search for uranium.’
New Zealand Journal of Science and
Technology (January 1955): 375–396.
Priestley, Rebecca. ‘The search for uranium in
“nuclear-free” New Zealand: prospecting on the West
Coast, 1940s to 1970s. New Zealand
Geographer 62 (2006): 121–134.
Williams, G. J. Economic geology of New
Zealand. Monograph Series 4. Parkville:
Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,
1974.