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.
