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Grey River dredge

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Grey River dredge

This aerial view shows the Grey valley dredge working near Ngahere in the early 1990s. The dredge is slowly moving toward the bottom of the picture, and the tailings are being stacked behind it from a conveyor belt on the boom. Mounds of dark topsoil are sitting on top of the light-grey tailings. These will later be smoothed over and planted with grass to create farmland.

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GNS Science

Reference: 32385/22

by Lloyd Homer

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Simon Nathan, West Coast places – Grey Valley, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20995/grey-river-dredge (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Nathan, i tāngia i te 3 March 2009.

Comments

Kiritana Ogilvie
18 March 2023
Good article in Stuff news about this today 18th March 2023