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Bill ✔️ Central Otago: Goldfields Mining Centre New Zealand. Bill Gibson-Patmore. (curation & caption: @BillGP). Bill😄✔️ Nature, Old Building, Nz Scenery, Stone Buildings, Old Abandoned Buildings, Central Otago, New Zealand South Island, South Island, Abandoned Buildings

On the banks of the spectacular Kawarau Gorge, the Goldfields Mining Centre is an historic reserve, protected by the Department of Conservation (DoC). It depicts the life and working conditions of Otago's early goldminers. There's a wide range of machinery and mining techniques to show how the early miners extracted gold from this rich field. The extraordinary stamper battery linked to the goldmine; the California sluice guns and numerous examples of hand-operated tools provide a complete…

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