New Zealand Gold Fields

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New Zealand Gold Fields

New Zealand's gold mining history

Coromandel gold rush from 1852.

Golden Bay / Takaka gold rush from 1857

Central Otago gold rush from 1861

Marlborough gold rush from 1862

West Coast gold rush from 1865

The late 1850s gold rush to Collingwood in Golden Bay exposed a lack of laws regulating goldfields.

The Miners’ Code outlined procedures such as how claims were to be staked and disputes settled

The Mining Act 1859 appointed Gold wardens to oversee goldfields; disputes were heard in the warden’s court. see The Nelson Gold-Fields Occupation Bill 1857 - Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle : 30 Dec. 1857, p: 2

James Bridger's 'Miners Right'

Two main types of gold mining operations -

Hard rock, quartz mines

Alluvial mining, which includes panning and cradling; sluicing and dredging

see Te Ara : Story: Gold and gold mining for more information

GOLD MINING OPERATIONS including Department of Conservation managed locations

Great Barrier Island

Oreville Stamper Battery 1899

Coromandel (Thames) - 1852 see Te Ara : Story: Gold and gold mining - 5. Coromandel Peninsula

Coromandel

Golden Hills Battery, Puketui, 1910

Kapanga Mine

Tairua Broken Hills (Puketui, Hikuai) 1890

Lillis Battery (Whangapoua Mine) Tokatea Saddle

Neavesville (settlement) Broken Hills, Tairua

Karangahake and Waitekauri (Hauraki - between Paeroa & Waihi)

Karangahake Gorge - Ohinamuri River

New Zealand Crown Mines Company

New Talisman Gold Mines see Mines in Karangahake mountain

Crown Battery

Mammoth

Monastery

Ravenswood

Woodstock Company

Te Aroha 1880

Tui mine

Thames (Hauraki) 1867 see The History of Gold Mining on 'The River Thames' Ohinemuri Regional History Journal 1, June 1964 by A.M. Isdale

Caledonian mine 1870 (Manukau-Golden Crown-Caledonian mines)

Golden Crown 1868

Grahamstown 1868 (settlement)

Manakau 1868

Maratoto 1887 (Ohinemuri)

Ohinemuri 1875

Shortland (settlement)

Shotover, Kuranui stream 1867

Welcome Jack Battery, Coroglen (Gumtown) 1900

Waihi 1878 See Te Ara : Story: Hauraki–Coromandel region - Waihī gold-mining timeline

Martha Lode 1878 (Pukeawā, Waihi) see OceanaGold : Waihi Operation

Amaranth 1880

Brittania 1880

Cassels Company (tailings) 1893

Dulcibel 1880

Grand Junction Battery 1896

Manukau Jones Battery (later Silverton / Union) 1882 (Mangatoetoe Stream & Ohinemuri River junction)

Martha 1880

Nelson & Nut 1880

Old Waihi 1880

Prince Imperial

Rosemont 1880

Silverton 1880

Union 1880

Victoria Battery, Waikino 1892

Waihi Grand Junction Co. 1897

Winner 1880

Young Colonial 1880

unsuccessful mines include - Waihi Beach, Waihi Extended, Waihi Monument, Favona-Brilliant, Queen of Waihi, Waihi Consolidated, Waihi Reefs, Waihi South, Gladstone.

Bay of Plenty

Butlers Incline, 1883

Franklin Rd to Bluff Stream Track (Waitawheta), 1907

Ohinemuri

Talisman Battery, Karangahake, 1900

Victoria Battery Historic Site, Waikino

Waitawheta Gorge Pipeline Track, Cherry & Sons battery, 1900 – mining - gold

Woodstock Battery Historic Site, Woodstock Battery, 1887

Woodstock G.M.C. ‘Windows’ tunnels, Waitawheta Gorge, 1890

Woodstock Underground Pumphouse, Waitawheta Gorge, 1900

Fiordland

Preservation Inlet 1880s

Cromarty 1890s

Te Oneroa 1890s

Nelson

Baton Miner’s Bridge, 1880

Booth’s Cottage, 1933

Cecil King’s Hut, 1935

Druggans Dam, 1870s

Golden Bay 1856, gold found in the Aorere Valley, from 1857 miners spread out from Collingwood working alluvial gravels along the rivers

Johnston’s United Battery, 1879

Mātakitaki valley

Mt. Arthur

North Bank Wairau Gold Mines, 1860

Ransomes and Sims Engine, 1895

Rolling River Goldfield, 1860

Waikakaho Goldmines, 1888

Wangapeka

Lyell (Buller Gorge)

Alpine Battery

Gibbstown

Zalatown

Marlborough

Wakamarina River (tributary of the Pelorus River) -

Canvas Town (many miners came from Otago)

Canterbury

Craigieburn Conservation Park 1880’s, (Urquhart’s Hut was built during the depression scheme)

Otago - 1861 alluvial gold in the Waitahuna and Tuapeka rivers see Te Ara : Story: Gold and gold mining - 3. Otago

Arrowtown Chinese Settlement, 1880

Bannockburn Historic Reserve, 1862

Bendigo Historic Reserve, 1880

Dunstan (area around Cromwell; Clutha, Kawarau and Shotover rivers) 1862

Golden Point Historic Reserve, 1902

Invincible Mine & Concentrator Historic Reserve, 1882

Macetown Historic Site, 1880

Nenthorn Conservation Area, 1889

Quartz Reef Point Historic Reserve, 1862

St Bathans historic buildings

"Gabriel’s Gully" 1861 (near Lawrence)

"Tuapeka" ("Glenore") ("Woolshed") see The Woolshed Diggings; Glenore by Alan Williams

Southland

Alpha Battery & Quartz Mine, Preservation Inlet, 1898

Anita Bay Stone House, Milford Sound, 1932

Golden Site Battery, Preservation Inlet, 1892

Mataurua Catchment -

Nokomai (Mataurua)

Waikaia (Mataurua)

Waimumu (Mataurua)

Martin’s Hut and Race, Longwood Ranges, 1900

Morning Star mine and Te Oneroa Township, Preservation Inlet, 1894

Orepuki 1860s (near Riverton)

Piano Flat Water Race, Waikaia, 1895

Ports Water Race, Longwood Ranges, 1889

Printz’s Mine, Longwood Ranges, 1878

Round Hill 1860s

Canton, Round Hill - Chinese mining settlement

Tarawera Smelter & Mine, Preservation Inlet, 1911

Turnbull’s Race, Big Dam, and Hut, Longwood Ranges, 1875

Waiau Catchment -

Blackmount (Waiau)

Waipapa Bucket Dredge Remains, Southland, 1935

Wilson River Pack Track, Preservation Inlet, 1892

Wilson River Tramway, Preservation Inlet, 1893

Taranaki

Boars Head Mine, 1869

Wellington

Terawhiti (near Karori)

West Coast - see Te Ara : Story: Gold and gold mining - 4. West Coast

Argyle Dam and water races, Charleston

Bearded Mining; Reefton

Birchfield Coal Mine

Brighton Cemetery

Britannia Track and battery

Browning Pass Pack track

Brunner Mine

Croesus Track

Donovan's Store, Okarito

Fenian Goldfields

Gillespies Beach

Golden Lead stamper battery

Goldsborough

Inland Pack track

Kaniere Water Race

Kirwans

Larrys Creek

Mitchells Gully; Charlestown

Moonlight track

Murray Creek track

Nelson Creek historic area

OceanaGold; Reefton

Prince of Wales Mine; Ross

Reefton School of Mines Historic Building

Ross gold field

Scandinavian Mine; Ross

Shantytown

Tatare Tunnels

Theta Tarn

Waiuta Goldmine

Wanganui pack track