Sluicing Gold, West Coast.ca.1900.

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DescriptionThe principal New Zealand goldfields were Coromandel, Nelson/Marlborough, Central Otago and West Coast
- The two main types of gold mine were: 'hard rock' quartz mines, and
alluvial mining which included panning and cradling, sluicing and dredging.
- Considerable prospecting and mining was done during the 1930s depression by people who would otherwise have been unemployed.
- Many of DOC’s managed historic hut sites date to this era.Date of Photoca.1900External LinkMadon NZContributor Richard Wooders

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EventSluicing Gold

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Sluicing Gold, West Coast.ca.1900.

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