Tip: For best results in panning for gold, add water to your pan first.
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The Central Otago landscape is littered with gold-mining relics, from eroded sluicings and
neat stacks of stones to old water races and cottages. But what was life like on the goldfields
and why did so many men swag up and tramp into the unknown back country during the gold
rushes of the 1860s? Charmian Smith talks to Stevan Eldred-Grigg, author of Diggers
Hatters and Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes.
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