✨ Gold Mining Operations Report
| Day. | Party. | Names. | How Employed. | No. of Men. | No. of Hours. | Gold Produced. | Remarks. |
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| | Mr. Cook and Mr. Crichton and boy. | Arrived at Kapanga. | | | |
Wednesday, Nov. 3. | Rings. | Mr. Ring, A. McGregor, R. Hodgson, C. Heaphy, and 3 Natives carrying “Tom,” &c. | Down to bar at junction of path and stream, deepening stream, setting “Tom,” &c. Digging and washing. | 5 | 7 hrs. | 4 ½ oz. | The earth passed through the “Tom” was top stuff, incidental to opening a new bar. Indications at one bar very rich.
| | C. Ring and W. McGregor. | Prospecting down stream. | | | | Reported having found very good specks in dish at a bar half a mile down stream and elsewhere.
Coolahan. | Mr. Coolahan and party. | Digging in direction of the tributary stream at their fork. | 4 | about 10 hrs. | ⅔ oz.* | Tributary evidently not so rich as main stream. The digging was well down, and the produce not so much as was anticipated. A great deal of blue clay full of iron pyrites, with cubical crystals of carbonate of iron.
| | Mr. Cook and party. | At work with cradle. | | | | A small quantity in grains.
| | Mr. Falwasser and A. Churton. | Arrived at diggings. | | | | Washed specks of Gold.
| | Mr. Tiller and Son. | Arrived at diggings. | | | | Washed specks of Gold.
Thursday, Nov. 4. | Rings. | Mr. Ring, R. Hodgson, A. McGregor. | Working surface stuff at Lower Bar. | 3 | 7 | 1-6 oz. | The water coming in faster than it could be baled out, the deeper pit had to be abandoned, and the surface only worked.
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New Munster Gazette 1852, No 30
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Gold Diggings Report and Findings
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🌾 Primary Industries & Resources4 November 1852
Gold, Mining, Coromandel Harbor, Operations, Daily Report
12 names identified
- Cook (Mr), Mining party leader
- Crichton (Mr), Mining party member
- Ring (Mr), Mining party leader
- A. McGregor, Mining party member
- R. Hodgson, Mining party member
- C. Heaphy, Mining party member
- C. Ring, Prospecting team member
- W. McGregor, Prospecting team member
- Coolahan (Mr), Mining party leader
- Falwasser (Mr), New arrival at diggings
- A. Churton, New arrival at diggings
- Tiller (Mr), New arrival at diggings