gold in nz

n Australian mate of mine once told me that at school in Australia he had been taught that "there was no gold in New Zealand". As one hole on Bendigo station near Cromwell produced more gold than any single seam in Australasia, that teacher needed some further training. Dunedin was one of the wealthiest places in Australasia in the 1880's, castles and large homes were built on the back of mining and associated industries. Most of the gold was alluvial but now some attention is being placed on developing areas of previous auriferous nature. McCraes(OGC) are at the front of this evaluation. They will be mining gold in NZ well beyond many of the Oz contemporaries