Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Gold Mining Structures in New Zealand
- In
- 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, 1998, pp. 17-23
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1858256843
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.545125614343064
- Abstract
The period covered is 1861-1952. Gold mining was confined mainly to the Coromandel and Hauraki regions in the North Island, and the West Coast and Central Otago in the South Island. Gold mining structures in New Zealand were predominantly of timber and corrugated iron with occasional use of concrete, especially in foundations. The paper outlines the use of poppet heads, stamp batteries, cyanide tanks, pump houses, dams, races, flumes, water wheels, hydraulic sluicing and dredges. This latter was a New Zealand development of international importance. Pump houses were not universal. Long water races were built in difficult country and, on the West Coast, had extensive timber fluming over steep gullies. Hydraulic sluicing often relied on these for water. Stamp batteries were commonly powered by water wheels and varied from three stamps to 200 stamps. Gold mining produced economic gains, stimulated immigration, and developed major engineering industries.
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