The hunt for gold under the former Cromwell business district has started, with equipment working on a bench halfway down the embankment of the left of the old highway bridge across the Clutha River. A Christchurch joint venture group is looking for gold in gravels that will be floded when lake Dunstan fills behind the Clyde dam. the Clulha and Kawarau rivers, at left, merge at Cromwell. The bndge ,s now closed to traffic. —Photograph by DES WOODS
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Press, 5 December 1986, Page 1
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78The hunt for gold under the former Cromwell business district has started, with equipment working on a bench halfway down the embankment of the left of the old highway bridge across the Clutha River. A Christchurch joint venture group is looking for gold in gravels that will be floded when lake Dunstan fills behind the Clyde dam. the Clulha and Kawarau rivers, at left, merge at Cromwell. The bndge ,s now closed to traffic. —Photograph by DES WOODS Press, 5 December 1986, Page 1
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