Talk:Otago Gold Rush

Photos
It would be nice to have a photo of the Gabriel's Gully area (or any other major Otago Gold Rush area) Brian | (Talk) 01:51, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Nearest I've got that would be useful is the one on the Naseby, New Zealand page. I wish I'd taken a photo of the miner's monument at Kyeburn when I went through there a couple of months back... Grutness...wha?  02:36, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Te Ara has some images, can we use them? Brian | (Talk) 02:49, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The 1862 photo would be out of copyright, so I think that should be okay (but I'm not a lawyer). The other one looks too modern. -- Avenue 03:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The 1862 one that I uploaded is okay, due to the death of the photographer. I have removed the photo request, as there are now some pictures, and the tag, I feel, should only be used on those articles that really, really need a/more pictures. Ingolfson (talk) 08:04, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Chinese
IMO a part about the Chinese miners should be added, the attitudes of community towards Chinese miners, and that Chinese worked over old ground, and managed to get the more finely-ground gold, that the every one else didn't make the effort to get. Chinese_New_Zealander <-- there is some info here. Brian | (Talk) 02:38, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Definitely - mention should probably be made of the restored Chinese miners' village at Lawrence, too. Grutness...wha?  03:26, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Request for assistance
New contributer User:Roseb has created an article at Archaeological Evidence of Gender in Central Otago Mining Communities that -- for various reasons -- isn't quite up to snuff, and after a contested prod, is currently pending Afd. IMHO, the contents of the article are however certainly valuable and worth salvaging, and here the request: could the folks familiar with the Otago Gold Rush article please take a look at the new article, and see how it could be merged into this one? Since the new article is (it appears) sourced, I think much of it would make a good "Social structures" (or "Life in the gold rush communities" or whatever) section, and the rest might be useful in a more general context. -- Fullstop (talk) 18:08, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Done - the article was well-referenced but had no footnotes. Someone who knows the topic should go thru those and footnotes them properly. D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  03:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Missing towns and mines
I've added a number of photos from Central Otago, of mines and towns not mentioned in this article. Could someone add a bit re these? TIA, Pete Tillman (talk) 05:23, 24 January 2012 (UTC), a gold geologist from SW USA

Change of title
I've moved the page from Central Otago Gold Rush to Otago Gold Rush. There are two main reasons for this: Redirects remain in place from the earlier title (and other capitalisations and spacing, of the term "gold rush/goldrush"). Grutness...wha?  05:41, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The term "Otago Gold Rush" seems to be more generally found in media and historical texts
 * Though concentrated mainly on Central Otago, the gold rush (more correctly, several overlapping gold rushes) covered everywhere from the lower Clutha Valley through Central Otago and the Maniototo to Naseby. As such, "Central Otago'' is not completely accurate.

Edit explanation
1 if the indigenous population is aware of gold (although they may not have exploited it) it cannot be discovered by Europeans. 2. A prospector becomes a prospector when he starts prospecting not when he takes off from a place at which he never prospected. Not all prospectors were male. 3. Are all inhabitants in a place citizens of NZ or the United Kingdom if they arrived from outside the nation/Empire? Can you certify that all that came with the gold strikes were citizens at the time? 4 gold field inhabitants were not all "men" or "women" as there were younger people like minor children there as well and they are male or female not men or women. 5 although not abundantly documented, not all business and technical people can be said to be only male.66.74.176.59 (talk) 20:15, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Moved from article
The following has been contributed by Radha Wardrop, granddaughter of Mary Brace Innes, (nee Cockerell). George Cockerell and his wife Mary, (nee Brace), settled in Macraes Flat in 1863-4, with their then six children. George and his brothers had been blacksmiths in Australia. They had six more children, but out of the twelve, only three survived. The property was later farmed by their son, George Francis Cockerell and his wife, Sophia, and passed down to their daughter, Mary Brace Cockerell and her husband Alexander Innes, (m. 1917). Alexander and his grandfather Robert Benzie, mined at Golden Bar. The Cockerell farm was also rich in gold, and George mined there alongside Alexander. It was known as the Innes Mine, and during the war they also mined scheelite towards the war effort. The original small stone cottage was expanded with extra rooms, and the family knew it as 'The Pines' since it was surrounded by pine trees. Alexander and Mary had eight children, one of whom was my mother, Eva Ruth Wardrop, (nee Innes, 1931 - 2008). One of her brothers, Douglas Innes, took the farm over in 1944, and later sold it to Frank O'Connel, who later sold it to the Macraes Mining Corporation. Several family members are buried at Macraes Flat. .
 * Moved from the article as it is lacking published sources, but may provide useful background information.- gadfium 07:45, 1 April 2021 (UTC)