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Gold nugget

Image Gold nugget

TLF ID R1785

This is a gold nugget (approximately 3.4 cm x 2.2 cm), which was probably found in about 1865 on a goldfield in Otago (in the southern South Island of New Zealand).

Tags: beaconsfield Gold fields
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Educational details

Educational value
  • This asset indicates that gold was found in New Zealand in the 1860s - the largest gold rush was in the Province of Otago after Gabriel Read struck gold at Gabriel's Gully near Tuapeka in 1861.
  • It is a product of an important industry in the development of New Zealand society in the mid-1800s.
  • It was displayed in Wellington's Colonial Museum in the 1870s, with other samples of gold, as an educational aid to intended miners - even though gold mining had become unprofitable for independent miners and most of the fields had been stripped bare.
Year level

F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12

Topics Gold
Learning area
  • Science
  • History
  • Studies of society and environment

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  • Organization: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  • Description: Content provider
  • URL: http://www.tepapa.govt.nz
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  • Organization: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Colour independence
  • Device independence
  • Hearing independence
Learning Resource Type
  • Image
Rights
  • © Education Services Australia Ltd and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2013, except where indicated under Acknowledgements