The Te Aroha goldfield is revealed to be a duffer

Hart, Philip

The Te Aroha goldfield is revealed to be a duffer

dc.contributor.author	Hart, Philip
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-16T04:27:51Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-16T04:27:51Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	The consequence of the murder of a Maori miner was the immediate abandonment of the Tui mines, but as the year progressed fields elsewhere came to the fore and Te Aroha was disparaged as a disappointment. As previously, unskilled miners combined with a lack of capital handicapped the field, and as attempts to find a payable main reef failed, mining declined and miners departed for better prospects. No discoveries of any significance were made in any claim, and once the battery commenced work it quickly proved the poverty of the ore. And all hopes of finding alluvial ore were illusory. Some claimholders remained hopeful, even spending their own money to make a road to get ore from the mountainside to the flat because the county council had not made one, and the Waikato Times correspondent’s optimism remained boundless. Overall, insufficient development was done to prove the value of the field, and as prospecting faded and capital was not attracted mining had to cease, with companies collapsing and unworked ground being forfeited. By late 1881, the field was dismissed as being a duffer.	en_NZ
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dc.identifier.citation	Hart, P. (2016). The Te Aroha goldfield is revealed to be a duffer. (Te Aroha Mining District Working papers, No. 69). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato, Historical Research Unit.	en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn	2463-6266
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10381
dc.language.iso	en	en_NZ
dc.publisher	Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato	en_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Te Aroha Mining District Working Papers	en_NZ
dc.rights	© 2016 Philip Hart	en_NZ
dc.title	The Te Aroha goldfield is revealed to be a duffer	en_NZ
dc.type	Working Paper	en_NZ
uow.relation.series	69	en_NZ