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Kōrero: Stewart Island/Rakiura

Tin mining: tailings

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Tin mining: tailings

Tailings – the rock and gravel excavated and dumped in the course of mining for tin – could still be seen in parts of the Tin Range more than 70 years after mining was abandoned in the 1930s.

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Private collection

by Carl Walrond

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Carl Walrond, Stewart Island/Rakiura – History and society since the 1850s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/37636/tin-mining-tailings (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012, updated 1 May 2015.