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Tuesday, 11 August 2020

The NZ Gold Rush

Today in Hur1 we have been looking at the NZ gold rush, here are some facts I learnt about it.

1. Gold is valuable because it is rare and attractive.
2. Gold is found as small flecks in the veins of hard quartz rocks.
3. alluvial gold is found in rocks that have been worn down to sand.
4. if you asked and gold miner where the gold was they would say, "where it be there it be".
5. in NZ gold was mainly found in, Otago, Marlborough, Southland, The west coast, Golden bay and in the Coromandel Peninsula.
6. 4 properties to describe gold are Inert, shiny, Heavy and  Malleable.
7. The first Europian to find gold in NZ was Charles Ring from Tasmania in Driving creek in 1852.

I learnt a lot from his bu he main thing I learnt was people really liked gold and would use it to get out of poverty.

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  1. Kia ora Aliyah, you have made a good start to this writing, you have rewritten the questions into statements very well. Remember to check your punctuation before posting to ensure that it is correct. Your next steps are to answer the remaining questions and turn the individual sentences you have written into one or two paragraphs.

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