More links and websites
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An Outline of the mining history of New Zealand
A PDF (3.5 KB) published in 2001 describing gold mining in New Zealand.
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Golden Cross Mine, New Zealand: Closure and Rehabilitation
An article providing the history of the mining and restoration of the Golden Cross mine on Coromandel Peninsula.
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Explore New Zealand Gold
A brief outline of how and where to go gold fossicking in New Zealand.
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Otago gold
The Otago University geology department, Gold research
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Recycling and chemical mobility of alluvial gold
This paper (PDF, 1.74 MB) by J. Youngson and D. Craw, published in the New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics in 1996, which summarises the occurrence of alluvial gold in Otago.
More suggestions and sources
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De La Mare, A. J. The Shotover River, the richest river in the world: a history of gold mining on the Shotover River. Arrowtown: Lakes District Museum, 1993.
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Ell, Gordon. Gold rush: tales & traditions of the New Zealand goldfields. Auckland: Bush, 1995.
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Latham, Darrell. The golden reefs: an account of the great days of quartz-mining at Reefton, Waiuta & the Lyell. Nelson: Nikau, 1992.
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May, Philip Ross. The West Coast gold rushes. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1967.
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Moore, Phil, and Neville Ritchie. Coromandel gold: a guide to the historic goldfields of Coromandel Peninsula. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 1996.
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Olssen, Erik, and Tom Field. Relics of the goldfields: Central Otago. Dunedin: McIndoe, 1976.