IMAGE
Shotover Mine, Kuranui Creek, Thames
- Date
- ca 1868 - 1870
- Reference
- 1/1-003165-G
- Description
Men and women at the Shotover Mine, Kurunui, Thames. The men photographed here probably include the discoverers of the claim - George Clarkson, W A Hunt, William Cobley and John Ebenezer White. Taken by unidentified photographer, circa 1868 to 1870.
John Ebenezer White's friendship with Piniha, who shared ownership of the land around the Hurunui Creek, enabled the gold miners, George Clarkson, W A Hunt and William Cobley, to gain access to this land. The miners sent samples of quartz to an Auckland jeweller on 10 August 1867 and filed a claim for miners' rights on 12 August. As a reward for the first discovery on the field, Comissioner Mackay gave Clarkson, Hunt, Cobley and White additional ground equivalent to two miners' rights. (see Williams, Z & J "Thames and the Coromandel Peninsula - 2000 years").
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Glass negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Auckland Star :Negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Glass negative
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