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The site today

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The site today

Gabriel’s Gully is now deserted, but there is still plenty of evidence – in the rusty machinery and debris – that gold mining was once a thriving enterprise here.

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by Jock Phillips

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – Miners, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2110/the-site-today (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.