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:
“How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark:M”I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)