First mines
Depression prospectors
Gold and silver production, 1857–2004
New Zealand’s goldfields
Gold ring
Weighing silver
Gold-bearing quartz
Alluvial gold
Shotover River
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)
Ōkārito
Beach mining
Free pardon
Mining batteries
Sluicing
Diseased and healthy lung (1st of 2)
The Jones family (2nd of 2)
Ye diggings, 1852
Golden pyramid
Stamper battery
Cyanide vats
Crushed quartz
Wakamarina Gorge, 1890
Chinese temple, Round Hill
Cape Terawhiti
Queenstown courthouse
Sluice and cradle, Kapanga Stream
Water race
St Bathans (1st of 2)
Blue Lake (2nd of 2)
Kawarau Falls Dam, 1925
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
Ballarat, Australia, 1855
Miners’ origins
Macetown children, 1902
Gabriels Gully jubilee
Arahura River mouth, 1846
Coromandel Harbour, 1852
Mr Punch’s welcome
Chinese settlement, Arrowtown
Pakapoo ticket
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
Simpson and Hart’s brewery, 1904
Electricity comes to Reefton
School of mines furnaces
Testing gold
New Zealand gold production by region
Frasers pit
