THE 5 BEST New Zealand Mines (Updated 2024)
Loved our visit to the gold mine, especially being able to go underground through a mine shaft tunnel, we found it really interesting being able to see how the miners worked back in the day. Fair price for everything you get to do ($20pp which includes an underground mine tour, gold panning, watching the machinery in action).
Waihi's Gold Mining Heritage | GO Waihi
Few parts of New Zealand can offer so much history - glimpses of the hard-fought, gold-rich, pioneer lifestyle permeate the town. ... The Martha Mine became one of the most important gold and silver mines in the world. By 1952, when the mighty Martha Mine closed, around 5.6 million ounces (174,160kg) of gold and 38.4 million ounces …
OceanaGold – OceanaGold is a multinational gold producer …
We have a portfolio of four operating mines: the Haile Gold Mine in the United States of America; Didipio Mine in the Philippines; and the Macraes and Waihi operations in New Zealand. More about us . Our Stories. Operations. 28 October 2023. Macraes launches self-guided modern and historic mining tour.
OceanaGold seals New Zealand's Waihi gold mine acquisition
Located 150km south-east of Auckland, the mine has combined open-pit and underground measured and indicated resources of 1.52Mt at 6.33g/t Au and 24.0g/t Ag containing 310koz of gold and 1,175koz of silver as of 30 June.
chinese gold miners
Date: Feb/Mar 2017 From: New Zealand memories, By: Meechang, Mags, 1947?-, INNZNA Description: Recounts the author's visit to Pomahaka River, in South Otago, to see the …
Mine For Gold
The West Coast of the South Island is second only to Otago in gold production. Both areas still have large gold mining operations currently working. ... In 1889 the New Zealand Crown Mines Company at Karangahake was the first company in the world to trial cyanide in gold recovery. The productivity increased to around 90% of gold and 50% of ...
Gold and associated minerals in the Waikaia placer gold …
The Waikaia placer gold mine, in the lower Waikaia River is located in Northern Southland, in between the better-known goldfields of Central Otago and Eastern Southland (Figures 1B and 2). This mine was opened in 2014 and has been developed in a Middle to Late Pleistocene paleochannel of the Waikaia River, adja-cent to sites of historic gold ...
For Students
The population peaked in 1881 with just under 5000 miners. Chinese miners followed one of three major religious beliefs - Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Many rituals are followed to keep evil spirits away or invite good fortune. While most miners had small shrines in their huts, temples were built in Lawrence and at Round Hill.
Chinese New Zealanders
The third story looks at the recent emergence of a vibrant local Chinese culture and arts scene, Chinese immigration (from the 1990s) and gender, demographic …
Gold Mining Heritage
Martha Mine quickly became one of the most important gold mines in the world. By 1952, when the mighty Martha Mine closed, 174,160kg of gold and 1,193,180kg of silver had been extracted. The deepest vertical shaft plunged 600m from the surface. Radiating from the seven vertical shafts, a 175km long network of tunnels was opened on 15 horizontal ...
Chinese New Zealanders 1880s-1940s: building lives
CHINESE BELIEF SYSTEMS. When the gold miners came to Aotearoa New Zealand they brought their traditional belief systems - Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, plus the folk religions that were indigenous to their local areas.The strength of traditional folk beliefs meant that Christian missionaries had a tough time preaching.Presbyterian and Anglican …
Chinese gold miner, Clutha River – History of immigration
Chinese gold miner, Clutha River. The gold rushes attracted for the first time to New Zealand a significant group of non-European immigrants – the Chinese. Photographed in 1900 or 1901, this man was still cradling for gold over 30 …
Chinese gold miners in Aotearoa New Zealand: 1865 …
Source: Gold and gold mining — Māori and Chinese miners, Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. The biggest Chinese centres The Lawrence Chinese camp in Central Otago was the largest of the two Chinese mining settlements with around 500 residents at its height, while Round Hill in Southland had at least 300 residents.
Prospecting and Mining for Gold in New Zealand
Macraes Gold Mines. This Open pit gold mine is the largest gold mine in New Zealand. The Mine is located in the Otago region about 100 km north of Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand. The mine is estimated to have produced about four million ounce of gold since 1990 when it was commissioned. The mine is owned and …
How maligned Chinese gold miners helped build New Zealand
The economics of migration made sense. In 1871, a savvy Chinese gold miner was making about 77 old New Zealand pounds a year and saving two-thirds of his earnings, whereas a labourer back home ...
History Of Gold In NZ | The Gold Room
The 1860s saw the official beginning of the 'gold rush' times in New Zealand and those that followed. Thousands flocked to goldfields all across New Zealand, seeking to make it big with the help of this soft, dense, yellow metal. Largely ignored by its original discoverers, the native Maori of New Zealand, gold was immensely favoured by ...
Arrowtown Chinese Settlement – Arrowtown, New Zealand …
Arrowtown was a bustling gold rush village in the 19th century. During the Otago Gold Rush of the 1860s, workers flocked to the area to search the Arrow River for the precious mineral. At its peak ...
Chinese gold miners in Aotearoa New Zealand: 1865 …
The population peaked in 1881 with just under 5000 miners. Chinese miners followed one of three major religious beliefs - Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Many rituals are …
Stratigraphy and mineralogy of tailings at Macraes gold mine…
Processed tailings in the Mixed tailings impoundment at the Macraes gold mine built up a sedimentary pile up to 100 m thick between 1990 and 2013. The tailings consist of sand-dominated fluvio-lacustrine sediments with fine (cm scale) bedding and have a mineralogical stratigraphy that reflects changing mine processes.
Chinese gold miner keepsakes
Celadon-glazed porcelain has been made in China from as early as 800AD and was widely prized for its resemblance to jade. The celadon wares used by gold miners in Aotearoa …
Invincible Gold Mine Track, Otago, New Zealand
The "Invincible Mine Track" is a steep but overly beautiful little secret close to Glenorchy/Queenstown. The track takes about 3-4 hours return - depending on how much time you spend admiring the views into the Rees Valley and examining the rusty but still well preserved remains of the old gear like the 7m waterwheel, the mine entrance, etc. …
Martha Mine
The Martha Mine is a gold mine in the New Zealand town of Waihi. Since July 2015 it has been owned by Australian-based OceanaGold. History. William Nicholl marked out a 5 acres (20,000 m 2) claim, calling it "Martha" after a family member. Several smaller claims were later merged to form the Martha Company. ...
Mining
This theme brings together a group of gold mining sites that began with the small Coromandel rush of 1852, followed by another small rush in 1857 at Aorere in Golden Bay. Then came the big Otago rush of 1861 and ended when Waiuta closed in 1953. The principal New Zealand goldfields were Coromandel, Nelson/Marlborough, Central Otago …
KO Gold | Exploring New Zealand for Gold
KO Gold is a Canadian-based exploration company focused on exploring the world-class Otago Gold District on the South Island of New Zealand. KO Gold owns four prospecting and exploration permits …
Gold and Silver Mining, Waihi, New Zealand | OceanaGold
ABOUT OCEANAGOLD WAIHI. OceanaGold Corporation is a gold and copper producer with over 30 years of operating sustainably in New Zealand. At Waihi, we operate a successful open pit plus several underground mining projects. We also operate mines at Macraes Flat in the South Island, in the Philippines and in the United States.
Mining in New Zealand
Mining by Europeans began in the latter half of the 19th century. New Zealand has abundant resources of coal, silver, iron ore, limestone and gold. It ranked 22 in the world in terms of iron ore production and 29th in gold production. The total value of mineral production in New Zealand was $1.5 billion in 2006 (excluding oil and gas).
Australian company says it's made biggest New Zealand gold …
Australian company says it's made biggest New Zealand gold discovery in decades. 11/01/2024. RNZ. An ASX-listed company, Santana Minerals, hopes to mine the 27,000-hectare site in Ōtākou/Otago ...
New Zealand's Chinese gold-mining heritage: …
The Chinese gold rush in New Zealand occurred between 1865 and 1900, nearly all of Chinese miners were males of Cantonese rural area. The first group of Chinese miners …
Karangahake Gold Mining | Engineering NZ
Karangahake Gold Mining. Gold was first discovered in New Zealand near Coromandel in 1852. Over the next thirty years New Zealand's gold rushes attracted huge numbers in …
Karangahake Gold Mining | Engineering NZ
Karangahake Gold Mining. Gold was first discovered in New Zealand near Coromandel in 1852. Over the next thirty years New Zealand's gold rushes attracted huge numbers in search of instant wealth. Mining of Mount Karangahake and at Waihi began in 1875, following earlier gold rushes in Collingwood and Takaka (1856), Otago (1861), …