Wakamarina Gold
W AKAMARINA Valley is somewhere in the mountains between Nelson and Marlborough, but it’s so small it isn’t marked on the map, says Mrs. A. V. Nelson in one of her two talks from 2YA. on Gold-Mining in the Wakamarina, Nevertheless, the valley was an important prospecting area in the pioneer days, when 3,000 miners were working there and nearly a million ounces of gold were taken out. Prospectors used to dig into the mountainsides looking for reefs, but most of the gold found was alluvial. The method of working the river flats was to pack the stones to one side and then wait for a flood to wash the smaller stuff away, leaving the gold exposed. Some strange tales are told about the motley crowd of prospectors who once lived in their tents in that 10-mile stretch ofriver. There were men who had run away from. their wives, remittance blokes, waifs and strays from Australia, and so on, And about five men from this goldfield were shot by bushrangers in the notorious Maungatapu murders, Wakamarina had a new lease of life when a settlement was established there during thedepression, but the gold is harder to find now, and returns are small. Mrs. Nelson’s first talk will be broadcast at 10.25 a.m. on Friday, February 6,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 13
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218Wakamarina Gold New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 13
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