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Gold-seekers

Gold-seekers

Geophysicists W. E. Hall, R. L. McHenry and F. A. McNeill perform an electrical resistivity survey with a ratiometer near Reefton in 1937. The process was part of a search for gold-bearing quartz reefs that might then be mined.    

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Simon Nathan, 'Research institutions - Research in New Zealand', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/44965/gold-seekers (accessed 19 April 2024)

Story by Simon Nathan, published 22 Oct 2014