A Practical Manual of Minerals, Mines, and Mining by H.S. Osborn

$275.00 NZD

Category: NZ Gold & Mining History

Big River Quartz Mine by Les Wright

$55.00 NZD

Category: West Coast

Hard Won Gold : Stories of Waiuta and the Reefton Goldfields by Ross Barnett, Pauline Barnett

$42.50 NZD

Category: NZ Gold & Mining History

Opium and Gold: A history of the Chinese goldminers in New Zealand by Peter Scott Butler

$75.00 NZD

Category: NZ Politics & Social History | Reading Level: good

Our Omn Correspondent by Anne Hutchison

$27.50 NZD

Category: NZ Gold & Mining History

Our Own Fun : Childhood Memories of Waiuta by Les Wright

$32.50 NZD

Category: NZ Gold & Mining History

Waiuta, a township in the West Coast's upper Grey Valley, lasted no longer than 45 years before the gold mine that had sustained it closed. However people who grew up there retain strong and mostly happy memories, despite having little provided in the way of possessions or entertainment. This collection of morethan 30 childhood reminiscences has been put together to mark the centenary of a place where, as kids of that era often recall: 'We made our own fun'. ...Show more

Rushing for Gold: Life and Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia by Lloyd Carpenter

$42.50 NZD

Category: NZ Gold & Mining History

This is the first book to take a trans-Tasman look at the nineteenth-century phenomenon that was the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand. It explores links between the rushes, particularly those in Victoria and Otago, to show that they were strongly intertwined affairs. The book brings together con tributions from both experienced and newly emergent researchers, who together provide a close examination of miners migration patterns, ethnicities and merchant networks. The contributors insightful analyses and narrative accounts of the places, commerce and heritage of the rushes reveal a pantheon of characters, from merchants, hoteliers, financiers and policemen to vagrants, sly-groggers and entertainers, not to mention women, all of whom prompted and populate the mythology of the era, which this book does much to unravel and rewrite. ...Show more

The West Coast Gold Rushes by Philip Ross May

$100.00 NZD

Category: NZ Gold & Mining History

Through The Eyes Of A Miner by Simon Nathan

$39.99 NZD

Category: NZ Gold & Mining History

Czech miner, Joseph Divis, photographed life in New Zealand mining towns Blackball, Waiuta and Waihi, where he lived and worked between 1909 and 1935. Although something of an outsider, Divis loved this country. When he died in 1967 he was one of the last inhabitants of the ghost town of Waiuta, site of one of the richest gold-bearing quartz reefs in New Zealand. Divis used a magnesium flash to take some of the few high-quality photographs that exist of an underground gold mine and the way miners worked using only the light of a candle. But as well he recorded mining town life in Waiuta - family celebrations, processing the ore, school activities, the 1931 jubilee, and union meetings. Thanks to his graphic and sensitive work, we have an extraordinary record of the isolated and often dangerous life in some of our frontier communities - above the ground and deep beneath it - seen through the eyes of a miner. ...Show more

Waiuta 1906-1951 - The Gold Mine, the Town, the People by Gerard Morris; Tony Nightingale; Joseph Divis (Photographer)

$35.00 NZD

Category: NZ Gold & Mining History

Waiuta Ghosts - The Meanderings of a Quartz-miner by Ed. C. Chandler

$95.00 NZD

Category: West Coast