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Wharekirauponga (WKP) Gold Project 7

A low-sulphidation epithermal Au-Ag discovery in New Zealand

19 Century Exploration
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1888 Gold discovered

1895-97 Construction

12km tramway from coast

Managers house, offices,

storehouse & assay lab

Township housing 300 men

Prospected by adits and

shafts

Battery site excavated and 40

stamp battery ordered

‘Mining Magnates on Tour. 14 tons treated at Thames
Waihi Russell and Kersey
Cooper, two of the sharpest School of Mines for 19 oz
Upper Thames mining experts, Bullion
leave for the land of bullion to
float off their “big guns.” Gold in
every inch of it’, 1898 All work abandoned as
Observer, 17 August 1895, p 7 the veins intersected were all
of short strike length