Dredging lecture

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For those in Dunedin or close by a talk on dredging by a local historian on the 25th

Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars: Industrious Kiwis: Archives and Industry.

Lunchtime seminar series exploring archive and industry and highlighting achievements and developments in Otago.
Held at: Hocken Library Seminar Room, University of Otago, cnr Anzac Avenue and Parry Street, Dunedin. Tuesdays, 4, 11, 18, 25 May, at 12.10pm-1pm

Tuesday 11 May: Peter Petchey - Developments at the Dunedin Gasworks Museum.
Tuesday 18 May: Bill Cowan - Rails to Roxburgh: The Construction of the Roxburgh Branch Railway Line.
Tuesday 25 May: Terry Hearn - Gold Dredging in Central Otago.

[GeoffS]

Hi Homesouth

Any chance of someone in Dunedin or close by getting the notes to the "dredging in Otago" seminar and posting them here for all to read ?
It might be a big ask but could be worth a try ?

Geoff

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Hi Geoff
Sorry lecture was pretty ho hum would learn more from any book on dredging. Try The Speculators Dream etc. The museum at Alexandra is good for books on mining. If you have anything you want give me a yell and the next time I'm thru I'll pick them up for you and send them over.
Cheers Mark

[powderburns]

Lecture dry, rivers wet at the moment:

water.orc.govt.nz/WaterInfo/#

[powderburns]

Some topics covered in pdf. Better not print much more or I'll get arrested. I'm sure most of these guys would love to send you their work. I suspect writing about gold doesn't pay much.

Attachments:

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Hi Powderburns,
Would like to get a hold of a copy of this, anybody has one to sell or loan I would really like to hear. Cheers

[GeoffS]

Mark

Thanks very much for the offer but I get to the Arrowtown Museum at least once a year and they always have a good selection of books including most recent releases. Have been to the Alex. museum as well and again good stuff there and a very helpful lady there who lives up at Blacks.

Thanks again for your offer.

Geoff

[powderburns]

Howdy,

Here's the first article presented at the 2006 dredging conference, with permission.

dl.dropbox.com/u/8249597/2006%20Buckets%20of%20Gold%20-%20McCraw.pdf

Not all conference presentations are equal. Professor McCraw's stuff always top shelf.

Cheers,

Matt

It was a mission getting the pdf smaller. The photos suck up MB. Eventually I stumbled across www.dropbox.com/
It's good for 2GB storage, and upto 300MB files. And its free.