END OF GIANT GOLD DREDGE
(N.Z. Press Association) GREYMOUTH, February 25. Eight years after it produced the last of 230,000 ounces of gold, the giant Arah u r a dredge is being cut up for scrap.
Seven gas cutters are working 12 hours a day on the old dredge from the Arahura River. Its last profitability is in the hundreds of tons of scrap metal being freighted to Auckland for Pacific Steel, Ltd, by a subsidiary, Pacific Scrap. The scrap firm has already eliminated more than one old West Coast landmark. One of its biggest jobs was dismantling the steel viaduct to the old Liverpool mine at Rewanui. The Arahura dredge, a replica of the last dredge working in this country, the Kanieri, began winning gold from the Arahura River in the late 19305. From then until September 16, 1961. it produced 230,000 ounces of bullion.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31923, 26 February 1969, Page 30
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