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Kōrero: West Coast region

Chinese miners

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Chinese miners

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

Reference: 19XX.2.664

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Simon Nathan, West Coast region – Settlement and changing population, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21101/chinese-miners (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Nathan, i tāngia i te 3 March 2009, updated 1 September 2016.