Gold miners in New Zealand in the 1800s worked in cold, dark mines and used canaries to detect dangerous gases. They used pickaxes to extract gold from rock. A major gold discovery was made in Otago in 1861, and pickaxes helped miners find significant amounts of gold.

1. Gold Mining By Lydia and Jorja click mouse to move on.

2. What was it like going down into the minds? The mines where cold and dark so the miners took candles into the mines.

3. The gold miners took a Canary down into the mines and if the Canary stopped singing the miners new some thing was wrong.

4. Pick axe

5. There was a gold discovery in 1861 in Otago. Lots of gold has been found.

6. Gold miners use a pick axe to get the gold.

7. The End Thank you for watching.