Panning for Gold in New Zealand How to Get Gold for
The first reports of New Zealand gold came in the 1830s when settlers near the entrance of Coromandel Harbour discovered the metal on Beesons Island. This discovery, though, attracted little interest and it was not until a larger discovery at CollingwoodTakaka in 1856, and then the Otago strike in 1861, that New Zealand truly found its place on the 19th Century gold mining map.