Archaeological excavations at Big Forest Park, West Coast, New Zealand
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The machinery of the Big River mine is the most complete historical assemblage of in situ machinery for quartz mining in New Zealand. Excavations were carried out to mitigate the effects of reconstruction of the winding engine house. Comprehensive and extensive drainage of the original working compound between the winding engine, bath house, engineer's workshop and the upper terminal of the aerial cableway to the stamper battery revealed a number of mining artefacts and the foundations and other details of the bath house and the engineer's shop. Excavation of a mullock talus eroding on to the engine house from the time of abandonment of the mine (1942), and before, revealed details of the foundations and layout of the working areas between the engine house and the boiler and flue.
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