Gold is valuble because it is worth alot of money and rare also it is atractive.
Gold is found as very small flecks in the quartz veins of hard rocks.
Alluvial gold came from rocks that is worn down.
If someone said where is the gold the gold miners would say there quote "where it be there it be".
Gold is found in Otago, Southland, The West Coast, Golden Bay, Mariborough, Coromandel Peninsula.
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Charlse Ring was the very first european to discover gold in Aoeteroa he was from Tasmania he found it in Driving Creek in 1852.
In Coromandel peninsula there was 312 tonnes of gold found.
In the West Coast there was 274 tonnes of gold found.
In Otago there was 265 tonnes of gold found.
For Coromandel Peninsula gold rush was started in 1867s.
For Golden Bay gold rush was started in 1860s.
For Otago gold rush was started in 1861s.
For the West Coast gold rush was started in 1865s.
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