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Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022186

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key and Minister of Mining, Phil Heatley, preparing to do 'keyhole' surgery on a woman who represents 'NZ Heritage areas'. Context: Mineral surveying in world heritage sites on the West Coast will go ahead but Prime Minister John Key has ruled out mining there. Mr Heatley says modern mining involves only a small incision in the earth's skin - keyhole mining, as it were. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022187

Description: Shows a nest of kiwis balanced on a tiny core left in the centre of a huge mine. A miner says 'See mining and the environment can co-exist'. Context: Probably refers to mineral surveying in world heritage sites on the West Coast that will go ahead but Prime Minister John Key has ruled out mining there. Mr Heatley says modern mining involves only a small incision in the earth's skin - keyhole mining, as it were. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1867 - 1870

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: C-174-003

Description: Shows the stamper battery established on the Golden Crown claim in Thames, about 1868. Features a single-storey building with a tall chimney. Other smaller buildings, likely to be miners' dwellings, and roadways are established on the hills behind. A flagpole bearing two flags stands to the right side of the painting. The scene is dotted with figures, all male Gold was first discovered in Thames in 1867. Thames soon had 693 stamper batteries pounding quartz rock as part the gold extraction process and by the 1880s, logging had also been established in the area Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - JC Hoyte / 18[?] [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 375 x 545 mm Provenance: Sold to Fletcher's at Webbs, 3 April 2001