These Chinese gold miners, photographed near Greenstone in the Kumara area, are working an alluvial claim. They often worked ground that was regarded as uneconomic by other miners, as well as reworking the tailings from other miners’ alluvial claims.
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Canterbury Museum
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19XX.2.664
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