Thames Gold Mine Experiance
This is a promotional video for the Thames Gold Mine experience - mainly their newly restored Stamper battery! Definitely a good stop to make while in Thames. Enjoy!
Thames gold mine tour plus school of mines visit
Thames,New Zealand.
Shortland Court Motel, Thames, New Zealand, HD Review
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Shortland Court is located just a 2-minute drive from the historic Thames town centre. It offers free WiFi and self-contained accommodation with a kitchenette and a 32-inch flat-screen TV. Free parking is available.
Shortland Court Motel is only 2,625 feet from the Olde Grahamstown Museum. The Thames Goldmine Experience is a 5-minute drive away.
All rooms include satellite TV with more than 50 channels, a refrigerator and a microwave. Some rooms also feature a spa bath.
Facilities at the Shortland Motel Thames include a guest laundry.
Город золотоискателей - Темза, Новая Зеландия
Всем привет! Сегодня мы отправляемся в исторический городок Темза или Темс (Thames, New Zealand), который расположен на полуострове Коромандел (Coromandel Peninsula), 1,5 часа езды от Окленда (Auckland, New Zealand).
Темза была основана а 1867 году как золотопромышленный город. Множество интересных фактов о тех событиях можно узнать в местных музеях, здесь сохранено богатство исторических зданий из золотодобывающих времен и жители города очень гордятся своей историей.
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Hauraki Trail 68km Paeroa to Thames 1st story
New Zealand - Arrowtown - an historic gold mining town in NZ
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Just a short stroll through Arrowtown , NZ autum 2018
Waihi Gold MIne Tours
Get inside the fence on a Waihi Gold Mine Tour
Waihi Gold Mining
Your journey starts here Come and explore Waihi's unique Newmont Goldmine tour. Visitors are given the opportunity to learn about New Zealand's Gold Mining heritage and get up-close and personal with the modern-day working in the Martha open pit mine and the underground mines.
The Coromandel is a year round visitor destination - Hidden Treasures series filmed in the middle of New Zealand winter 2012.
New Zealand The Bas Experience - Couchsurfing - Tapu, Coromandel
Didier and Gaelle couchsurfing experience in the housetruck of Basil Midwaan.
Tapu, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. February 2013.
NEW ZEALAND on the way to Thames COUNTRY SIDE
On The Way to Thames Coromandel New Zealand
This video 35 Menut when we driving to Thames Country Side good view
The mining heritage of Thames in The Coromandel
Your journey starts here Thames was once one of New Zealand's biggest towns, attracting people from around the world. The heritage town continues to attract people for it's natural resources. The Pinnacles Walk, Sleeping God Canyon, the Sunset Coast and the Hauraki Rail Trail are some of the world class attractions that bring visitors to the heritage town.
The Coromandel is a year round visitor destination - Hidden Treasures series filmed in the middle of New Zealand winter 2012.
Broken Hills (Coromandel, New Zealand) Recreation Area - Collins Drive Tunnel
The 500-m long Collins Drive provides an opportunity to experience a real underground mine system. This tunnel was driven through the hill in a fruitless attempt to find a quartz reef with payable ore. Dangerous shafts have been boarded up. You will need a torch for the 15-min boardwalk through the tunnel. Turn your torch off near the tunnel entrances to see the glow-worms.
The easiest approach to Collins Drive is via the Third Branch Track (Puketui Road) or Water Race Tunnels Track (Puketui Valley Road). A small landing 5 min short of Collins Drive marks the start of an aerial cableway that carried ore hoppers to the Golden Hills stamper battery. From the west end of Collins Drive, a 10-min climb to the ridge will bring you to the Main Range track. Turn to the east (right) and you will return to the Puketui Valley road end car park, approximately 1 hr away. Check out the views from the lookout on the way.
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Nestled beside the slow-moving Tairua River, Broken Hills is a tranquil holiday hideaway in a picturesque setting. Around the turn of the 20th century, a bustling gold-mining settlement named Puketui was established in the Broken Hills Gorge. It had a post office, hall and several shops.
By 1912 a settlement of 200 people had sprung up along the river. Plans were prepared for a permanent township on the site now occupied by the Broken Hills Campsite. Just 2 years later, production at the mines tailed off and the size of the settlement diminished accordingly. Small-scale mining continued in the area until 1923. Relics of this past mining era can still be seen. Today, one of the old drives is being mined using historic methods.
This beautiful gorge now provides many opportunities for walking, swimming, canoeing, trout fishing, fossicking, rafting, bird watching, photography, picnicking and camping.
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The Waihi Gold Experience
Waihi Gold Mine Tours and the Waihi Gold Experience are an award-winning combination telling Waihi's fascinating 140-year gold mining and social history story.
Waihi has been famous for its gold and silver since 1878 and has a compelling story to tell. You can experience that story, as you rattle the drill, crank the handles, push the plunger and become immersed in interactive activities at the Waihi Gold Experience. And you can also take a Waihi Gold Mine Tour to experience modern gold mining from inside the fence. On the tour, you'll get up close to massive mining machinery as our experienced guides explain the modern mining process.
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GOLDEN POINT STAMPER BATTERY RUNS AGAIN.mp4
The Golden Point stamper battery in New Zealand's south island is the only battery where the stamps still work in their original location, driven by the original source of power. The 100-plus years old Tangye type AA oil engine is fired up for a special run, watched by visitors from a modern mine nearby and by pupils from a local school. But the purpose of the run is really diagnostic: Department of Conservation staff want to assess the condition of the engine and the stamps to decide on possible restoration work. Meanwhile, the run is spectacular, both visually and aurally !
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Castlerock Coromandel
Castle Rock is an old volcano core that rises above the bush, on the backbone of the peninsula. To climb it you leave the 309 road just before you get to Waiau Waterworks, and drive 2 km up through the pine forest. There you set off on foot up a clay road, and then a walking track in the native bush. Some places can be a bit muddy after rain. The last few metres is a scramble up, holding onto bits of tree root and rocks to the top. There is a panoramic view that makes it well worth the effort! The walk takes about 3/4 of an hour up, and 1/2 an hour down. No problems for any fit adult, or child older than about 3 or 4. Allow two hours altogether, and wear appropriate footwear
Gold Stamper Battery Hidden in Bush
Rediscovering a fogotten Stamper Battery used for pounding raw ore to dust then further proccessed to extract gold by early Chinese miners around 1875 ,Neavesville , Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. This was my second attempt to find this remote and overgrown stamper battery about 3 hours walk up hill and through bush to get to it. I found this interesting artical about it:
I returned to Neavesville, somewhat disillusioned, and once more joined the small community. There was much evidence of the past mining activity at Neavesville, there was one battery standing complete in Neavesville, the story being that after being erected, the big suction gas engine which was to drive the battery would not operate at the high altitude (some 2,500 feet). There were ten head of stamps, hopper and jaw crusher, berdans, and Wilfrey [Wilfley -- E] table, all set up, but had never crushed a single ton of rock. There was plenty of evidence that our predecessors had intended to work the battery, as they had cut and stacked many cords of mountain rata, a wood that had been in plentiful supply. A mixture of firewood, with a small amount of anthracite coal and coke was evidently the fuel necessary to run the plant.
Here is a link to the whole article.
Here is a link about Hauraki Prospectors Association removing stampers from the Neavsville Area.