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Gabriel's Gully mine

Gabriel's Gully mine, New Zealand. Heritage site, alluvial, mining gold.

Why Gabriel's Gully is famous

Gabriel Read found gold in 1861, starting the Otago rush. Mining continued to the 1930s (approximate end).1,2

Story cards

Timeline

  1. from May 1861Otago gold rush3

What kind of deposit

Placer gold and tin

Gabriel's Gully today

Where gold is mined todayMining in New Zealand

Where next

People

Discovered byGabriel ReadHis find in 1861 started the Otago rush, New Zealand's first major gold rush.1

Mines

Same kind of depositKlondike (Bonanza Creek)Dredging ended on Bonanza Creek in 1959 or 1960. Gabriels Gully was mined into the 1930s.4

Events

Led toOtago gold rushRead what happened near Gabriel's Gully: Otago gold rush.1

Places

Came out ofArrowtownGabriels Gully, where Read found gold in 1861, is the next stop in Otago.1

Deposit types

An example ofPlacer gold and tinGabriel's Gully belongs to the placer gold and tin family of deposits.5

Sources

  1. Gabriel's Gully NZ Department of Conservation
  2. Wikidata entity Q5515501
  3. History of Gabriels Gully NZ Department of Conservation
  4. Klondike Gold Rush and dredges Parks Canada
  5. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

Pictures on this page: Thomas Gabriel Read.jpg, not known, image edited (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Mijnramp Bois du Caizier, Marcinelle, België. Schacht, Rossem, Wim van / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).