Gold Mining

 Kia Ora readers today here in Hurrumanu 3 we were doing a research about the Gold rush for some of you who dont know what a gold rush is its basically just Gold mining. All of us has to find 3 facts about the Gold rush and 3 facts about the Chinese miners on the inks that are given to us.

Here are the facts about the Gold Rush.

*Gabriel read gained fame and Provencal bonuses when he found a gold near the,Tuapuka river, a tributary of the Clutah river in Otago.

*The Otago provincial offerd $1000 as reward for the discovery of the payable quantities of gold reader and one of the prospector on the Tasmania people claimed the reward(equivalent to more than $110,000 today)after finding a gold on Orion, his discovery sparked everywhere and had the first Gold Rush.

* The miners use trucks to find Gold in undergrounds.

*The New Zealand gold rush began with a discovery of gold in the Coromandel area in 1852.

Here are some facts about the Chinese Gold miners. 

*Chinese people used to call New Zealand Sun Cum or the New Gold Mountain.

*During the 1800s, there were many people from Guangzhou province who lived in poverty in Southern China. There was a high unemployment, the place was over populated from the effects of the Opium Wars. One way to escape from poverty is to make the families pay for their brothers or sons to go overseas and work on the goldfield that was newly opened up. Many Chinese miners went to Australia, California, but most of them came to New Zealand.

*Most Chinese people that went to New Zealand doesn't speak English.That' s why at the very place they didn't earn the European respect but a the end they did when they get the hang of speaking in English.

* The Chinese appearance,dress,language and use opium set the Chinese miners apart as different. They lived in their own settlements and even some of them had already own their own shop,the Chinese population reached about 5,000 in the 1881. Most of Chinese are all hoping to go back to there home, to bring golds but some of them died.