GOLD EXELDS OE NEW ZEALAND

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Enclosure 2 in No. 1. Bepobt on the ISToeth Haubaki Gold Mining District, Coeomanbel, for the Tear ending 31st March, 1872. The Coromandel Gold Field was the first to be discovered in New Zealand, alluvial deposits having been found in the year 1851, and worked with different degrees of success until 1854, when the field was almost totally abandoned. In 1862, gold was found to exist in considerable quantities in the quartz lodes of Driving Creek, and several small claims were held in that locality until the formation, in 1864, of the Kapanga Company, with which they were amalgamated. The Kapanga Company continued to work the ground for about four years, during which time about £85,000 worth of gold was obtained from it; but the opening of the Thames Gold Fields, and the discovery there of gold-bearing quartz of great richness, again caused the abandonment of Coromandel. The discovery of gold in remunerative quantities on the Tokatea Range in 1869 gave a fresh impetus to mining in this district, which has been slowly but surely advancing since that time, with the aid of local capital only. Shortly after the Tokatea finds, important discoveries of reefs were made in the hills bordering Coromandel Harbour, followed more recently by successful prospecting in the township of Wynyardton, the Tiki district, the Courb House Creek, and the neighbourhood of the old Kapanga Claim, which localities are widely apart from each other, and scattered over a large extent of country. 3

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Claim or Company. Tons. Oz. Claim or Company. Tons. Oz. Junction Jamaica Ivanhoe Kuranui Kelly's ... Little and Good ... Ladybird and Hand of Friendship ... Long Drive Little Angel Long Tunnel Lincoln Castle Macdonald Moanataiari Mary Ann Morning Star Middle Star Moanataiari Union Manukau Multum in Parvo ... Messenger's Moa Missouri ... Montgomery Brothers New May Moon ... No Name North Devon Nonpareil Nebraska Nolan's Candlelight Nautilus ... Ne Plus Ultra New Caledonia North Star New Claim Only Chance (Ecumenical Council Otago Prince Imperial Point Russell Poverty and Charleston Port Philip Pukehinau Pride of York Providence Permissive Bill Pride of Moanataiari 1,220 5 15 lbs. 3,625 158 20 460 497 7 20 27 73 8,453 30 86 665 159 1,150 276 3 40 180 11 15 4 110 2,170 2 32 50 1 12 15 80 5 82 10 235 291 478 10 118 43 31 51 11 964 74 2 3,218 413 24 113 355 23 24 27 33 8,705 7 168 652 213 932 897 2 23 54 72 18 25 55 3,901 1 78 32 2 24 17 59 3 17 4 130 217 647 8 56 56 107 36 4 Queen of Beauty ... Queen of May Queensland Quebec ... Eed White and Blue Rover Eed Queen Sir Colin Campbell Southern Pacific ... Shotover Savage Shooting Star Sundries (including tailings) Sons of Freedom ... Standard Sailor Prince Sir Walter Scott ... South Devon Star of the Thames Sons of Freedom ... Sink to Rise Shamrock Tookeys ... Twenty-third of June Thistle ... Tweedside Thames View Tichborne Una Company Unicorn ... Victoria ... Vulcan ... Vale of Avoca Victory ... Whau ... Wade ... Waiotahi Association Wanderer's Hope ... Windsor Castle West Coast Waitemata Yankee Doodle 1,360 15 23 1 673 5 9 5 20 1,133 15 32 4 101 5 10 5 120 120 40 24 872 183 1 24 21 9 3,246 10 5 272 64 69 1,536 16 954 11 182 80 104 35 1,857 5 22 6 780 4 21 4 44 777 11 34 16,000 15 132 3 6 4 269 174 40 45 2,004 555 1 22 17 10 2,635 141 2 431 85 36 1,620 15 646 6 120 62 51 34 Small parcels from various claims 59,844 171,825 621 lbs.