Gold Mines
- At Karangahake Gorge the remains of the Crown and Talisman gold mines are visible from the walkway.
- At Waikino the Victoria Battery site has been opened as a public reserve. A railway line followed the river's south bank eastward to Waihi until 1952.
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Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or mines:
“Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the labor interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
—Administration in the State of Neva, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)