✨ Provincial Government Notices and Geological Report
THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.
All Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIX. NELSON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1870. No. 39.
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
12th December, 1870.
THE following Report is published for general information.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
WANGAPEKA DISTRICT, NELSON.
PRELIMINARY REPORT.
BY E. H. DAVIS, ASSISTANT GEOLOGIST.
The district of the Wangapeka Valley has long been recognised as a gold-producing country, but until lately the attention of miners has been entirely devoted to the search after alluvial gold in the beds of the different rivers and creeks. In the spring of last year a prospecting party which had been sent out from Nelson discovered gold in situ in a reef on the spur between Blue and Nuggetty Creeks, near the head of the Rolling River, and about 38 miles in a direct line to the S.W. of Nelson.
The Rolling River is a tributary of the Wangapeka, a branch of the Motueka, which runs into the sea some 25 miles W. of Nelson, and 36 N.E. of the reefs. A township has been laid out on a flat just at the junction of the two creeks, which at present is represented by three or four stores and public houses, which are, however, amply sufficient for the wants of the place, there being only about 150 men at work on the hill, and most of those are very short of money.
The district from a mining point of view may be considered as composed of altered slate, more or less crystalline, traversed in all directions by innumerable quartz veins, the master-lodes running N.N.W. The sides of the spur are so precipitous, that all the reefs might be worked dry; i.e., above an adit; and 300 or 400 yards of fluming would bring in an unlimited supply of water on either creek. The spur, on the lower part of which the reefs now being explored are situated, rises abruptly to a considerable altitude, terminating in one or two bald peaks, which tower up
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1870, No 39
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🏘️ Publication of Wangapeka District Geological Report
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government12 December 1870
Wangapeka District, Nelson, Gold mining, Geological report
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary
🌾 Preliminary Report on the Wangapeka District by Assistant Geologist
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesWangapeka Valley, Gold mining, Geology, Quartz reefs, Rolling River
- E. H. Davis, Assistant Geologist and author of the report