Aorere gold : the history of the Golden Bay goldfields, New Zealand, 1865 - 1863
Maker and Role
Author: Mike Johnston (b.1941)
Publisher: Nikau Press
Production date
2023
Description
First volume of a history of the Western Nelson goldfields.
Contents: Survey Pegs and a Glimmer of Minerals -- Firing the Boilers -- Black Gold at Pākawau -- Colours in a Tin Dish -- The Rush of 1857 -- The Goldfields Settlements -- The Slate River Rush -- Brandy Point and the Quartz Ranges -- Golden days of 1858 -- The New Rush to the Rocky -- In and about Collingwood -- Waiting for Queen Victoria -- Tākaka Gold -- Hochstetter, Haast and Hope -- The Law catches up -- Mining in the Early Sixties -- Into the Mountains -- Te Waikoropupū Diggings -- Golden Bay Essentials -- Risky Commerce and Tragedy at the Golden Age -- West of Aorere -- Retrenchment at Collingwood.
Includes bibliography and index.
Object detail
Gold mines and mining -- Golden Bay County (N.Z.)
Golden Bay/Mohua (N.Z.) -- History.
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