New Zealand Gazette – 1912 – No. 67

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✨ Mines and Quarries Statistics



MINES AND QUARRIES.—COMPARATIVE TABLE, 1911, 1906, 1901, 1896.

TABLE XLIV.—Showing the Number of each Description of Mines and Quarries, the Number of Hands employed, the Approximate Value of the Output, and the Approximate Value of Machinery and Plant as returned at the Census of 1911, compared with the Results obtained in 1906, 1901, and 1896.

Number of Works.* Number of Hands employed. Approximate Value of Output. Approximate Value of Machinery and Plant.
1911. 1906. 1901. 1896. 1910. 1905. 1900. 1895. 1910. 1905. 1900. 1895. 1910. 1905. 1900. 1895.
Gold-quartz mines and machinery 90 88 120 168 4,014 3,869 4,333 2,814 £1,520,072 £1,272,375 £796,871 £492,478 £837,156 £1,040,104 £735,927 £335,474
Gold-dredging .. .. 52 139 145 35 465 1,165 965 258 159,138 531,112 287,061 70,016 153,999 477,780 528,600† 86,003
Hydraulic gold-mining .. 197 93 130 105 895 650 962 744 147,172 135,618 135,944 113,769 247,623 255,844 207,750 ‡
Collieries§ .. .. 118 162 145 164 3,331 3,329 2,460 1,799 800,211 783,045 540,778 370,400 310,094 372,093
Stone (road-metal) quarries
Stone (building) quarries }		 18 17 8 12 221 294 58 59 47,625 39,370 11,164 6,041 33,217 39,324 4,660 4,070
Totals .. .. 475 499 548 484 8,926 9,307 8,778 5,674 2,674,218 2,761,520 1,771,818 1,052,704 1,271,995 2,123,146 1,849,030
  • See introductory note.  † Capital invested. Information as to machinery and plant incomplete.  ‡ Value of machinery and plant used in hydraulic gold-mining not returned. Capital invested, £505,674.
    § Figures for 1895 taken from Mines Report, Census returns being incomplete.  || Value of machinery and plant not stated.


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