Gold Rush

Kia Ora everyone,

Welcome back to my blog. For today, I will be talking about gold rush. I have read some of the information that is given to us. While reading the text, we have to write information that we found. It must include four or more facts about gold mining and four facts about the Chinese miners who came to New Zealand.

I found these facts in one of the links that we have to read. 

Here are information that I found about gold mining: 

• Gold is valuable because of it’s attractive looks and it’s rare, it’s mostly used in jewellery. 

• They dig to find gold underground but it can take a year finding gold. When it’s found, they use this machine to crush the rocks and it helps to separate the gold that is called stamper batteries.

• They use trucks to help them dig underground and find gold.

• The first person who discovered an amount of gold in New Zealand was by Charles Ring in 1852. He’s a Tasmanian who found gold at a driving creek near the town of Coromandel. 

• Years passed, there were more discoveries found around Golden Bay and Marlborough, Otago and West Coast. Some found nothing, but some found a huge amount of gold. 

• 1867 was the first big discovery was near Thames. The gold was inside in a hard rock and they were expensive to mine. 

Chinese gold miners:

• In 1865, there was a new gold rush happening on the West Coast. Hundreds of Chinese miners were encouraged to come, and asked to rework the Otago goldfield. These miners were mostly from Southern China. 

• Most of the Chinese Miners didn’t speak English back then. 

• During the 1800's, there were many people from Guangzhou province who lived in poverty in Southern China. There was high unemployment, the place was over populated from the effects of the Opium Wars. One way to escape from poverty is to make the families pay for their brothers or sons to go overseas and work on the goldfield that was newly opened up. Many Chinese miners went to Australian, Californian, but most of them came to New Zealand. 

• They used to call New Zealand Sun Kum Shan or the new gold mountain. 

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