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Chinese Miners Sluicing A Face At Round Hill, Southland
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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-29TitleChinese Miners Sluicing A Face At Round Hill, Southland DescriptionCasual photo of two Chinese men using water (sluicing) to mine for gold in a deep open-pit mine. One stands with a tool in his hand, working with a stream of water, the other, a bit farther back, is controlling a large hose that is flushing water high up the face of the hill. Printed at the bottom edge of the photo in black ink: "A Sluicing Claim, Round Hill"
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 2", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1995. Image on page 35.
Caption from book: "Chinese miners sluicing a face at Round Hill, c. 1900. Most of their mining was by tunneling or ground sluicing. [Alex. Don and G.H. McNeur, Chinese Mission Work In Otago. Annual Inland Tour (1900-1901)]"TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions36mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupChinese Gold MiningGold Mining-Central Otago-SluicingGold Mining-Southland-Round HillSourceEva and James NgAccession No42018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.
Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-29TitleChinese Miners Sluicing A Face At Round Hill, Southland DescriptionCasual photo of two Chinese men using water (sluicing) to mine for gold in a deep open-pit mine. One stands with a tool in his hand, working with a stream of water, the other, a bit farther back, is controlling a large hose that is flushing water high up the face of the hill. Printed at the bottom edge of the photo in black ink: "A Sluicing Claim, Round Hill"Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 2", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1995. Image on page 35.
Caption from book: "Chinese miners sluicing a face at Round Hill, c. 1900. Most of their mining was by tunneling or ground sluicing. [Alex. Don and G.H. McNeur, Chinese Mission Work In Otago. Annual Inland Tour (1900-1901)]"
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions36mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupChinese Gold MiningGold Mining-Central Otago-SluicingGold Mining-Southland-Round HillSourceEva and James NgAccession No42018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.Click on the image to add
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Don, Alexander Rev, Chinese Miners Sluicing A Face At Round Hill, Southland . Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 29/05/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127531
