Enticing attractions at white gold mine sites

January 2012

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January 2012

Old hut and crawler tractor at the State Sheelite Mine. Photo: Pat Barrett
Mt Judah, Whakaari Conservation Area High up the steep schist slopes of Mt Judah at the head of Lake Wakatipu in north-west Otago lie a notable series of mine sites. For the greater part of a century they were the focus for extraction of scheelite – calcium tungstate, or ‘white gold’, as it came to […]
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