New Zealand Gazette – 1907 – No. 12

Page 491

✨ Gold Mining Statistics

HYDRAULIC GOLD-MINING.

TABLE XXXIX.—Showing the Number of Hydraulic Gold-mining Works in Operation in April, 1906, the Hands and Power employed, the Quantity of Gold produced during the Year 1905, and the Approximate Value of Machinery and Plant.

Provincial Districts.	Number of Mines.	Hands employed. Males.	Motive Power. Steam.	Water.	Electric.	Horse-power. H.p.	Claims working Day and Night, or Day only. No. Day, Day and night,	Average Number of Sluice-heads.	Expenditure for the Year 1905. Labour. £	Water. £	Plant and Repairs. £	Management. £	Total Expenditure. £	Yield of Gold during 1905. Oz.	Value of Gold, 1905. £	Value of Machinery and Plant. £	Capital invested. £
Nelson ..	18	131	1	6	..	41	Day, 6 Day and night, 12	159	13,225	5,023	2,148	1,801	22,197	5,461	21,436	68,611	111,290
Westland* ..	19	153	..	..	..	..	Day, 14 Day and night, 5	289	17,716	9,406	7,157	1,070	35,349	7,092	27,805	87,993	236,900
Otago ..	56	366	..	3	..	32	Day, 23 Day and night, 33	639	34,507	12,295	10,731	5,280	62,813	22,185	86,377	99,240	318,223
Totals ..	93	650	1	9	..	73	Day, 49 Day and night, 44	1,087	65,448	26,724	20,036	8,151	120,359	34,738	135,618	255,844	666,413

Yield and value in three cases not given.

NOTE.—This table shows the results of the operations of public companies and parties working on a large scale. Individual miners and small parties have not been asked to furnish returns.

GOLD-DREDGING.

TABLE XL.—Showing the Number of Gold-dredges in Operation in April, 1906, the Hands and Power employed, the Quantity of Gold produced during the Year 1905, and the Approximate Value of Machinery and Plant.

Provincial Districts.	Number of Dredges.	Hands employed. Males.	Motive Power. Steam.	Water.	Electric.	Un-specified.	Horse-power. H.p.	Expenditure during 1905. Labour. £	Coal, Plant, and Repairs. £	Management. £	Total Expenditure. £	Yield of Gold in 1905. Oz.	Value of Gold won during 1905. £	Value of Machinery and Plant. £	Capital invested. £
Nelson ..	11	111	11	..	..	..	221	13,451	7,793	3,424	24,668	7,046	28,184	40,306	58,853
Westland ..	17	144	17	..	..	..	296	19,332	13,694	5,571	38,597	17,740	70,960	45,632	87,398
Otago ..	111	910	99	5	1	6	2,367	124,461	128,822	17,373	270,656	107,992	431,968	391,842	502,625
Totals ..	139	1,165	127	5	1	6	2,884	157,244	150,309	26,368	333,921	132,778	531,112	477,780	648,876

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Feb. 7.]

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VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1907, No 12

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Domain🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
KeywordsGold dredging, Dredges, Employment, Motive power, Machinery, Expenditure, Gold yield, Value

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