Gold Rush 👑

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be sharing what I have been learning for my second topic in Who Are We. The topic that we a learning about is The Gold rush that happened in NZ. The first thing we did for this topic is we red the article about The Gold Rush and then we wrote answer to some questions that were on our paper. Here is some more information about The Gold Rush:

Gold is Valuable because when mined the gold is usually mixed with some silver, also it is very rare and attractive.

Gold is found as very small fleck in the quartz veins of hard rock.

Alluvial gold is found in rocks once they have been worn down to sand and gravel over many thousands of years by rivers and glaciers.

Many gold miners used the quote "Where it be, There it be" If you asked where the gold is. 

Otago, West Coast, Coromandel Peninsula, Martha Mine, Southland, Golden Bay are regions of NZ were gold is found.

Inert, Very Heavy, Shiny, Malleable this are 4 properties that describe gold.

Charles Ring was a Tasmanian male that discover gold in NZ, He found the gold at Driving Creek in 1885.

312 tonnes of gold were found at Coromandel Peninsula.
274 tonnes of gold were found at West Coast.
265 tonnes of gold were found at Otago.

A Gold rush in the Coromandel was dated 1852.
A Gold rush in Golden Bay was dated 1856.
A Gold rush in the West Coast was dated 1864.
A Gold rush in Otago was dated 1861

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you learnt something new from it, BYE!!!

(Otago)