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Gold in Thames - Mining museum & history
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Posted : Tuesday, 6 October 2015 10:50:48 PM(UTC)
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Went to mining museum in Thames.
All the waste ore was dumped into the sea & silted the harbour up. Guess it wasn't economical to dredge, or there was too much silt! Cause they gave up & pulled down the warf.
Another thing is 40% of the gold went straight out with the waste ore!
Some people say it polluted the harbour, river, & estuary. Some want to dredge it up & reprocess the gold out, they claim it will clean up the harbour. But I guess some greens are opposed.

Also apparently they have recently discovered Titanium in one of the richest mines, strange that the miners overlooked that.

I tried a bit of panning & dug deep knowing the gold will settle down low, and I swear they'd put pyrite in there (no gold). I gave it to some children that were there to put in their collection tube.
Got out my pointer & got no indication on their tube. The panning soil was from a coromandel mine & the south island.

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Treasure/coins: $1
Other artifacts: 1888 button
Lead: 914g
Copper: 46
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Posted : Wednesday, 7 October 2015 8:50:42 AM(UTC)
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Yes they wanted to dredge the harbour but there were fears of stirring up the sediment which in turn would cause polution problems.

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Posted : Wednesday, 7 October 2015 2:18:13 PM(UTC)
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