Gold Stamper Battery Hidden in Bush

Rediscovering a fogotten "Stamper Battery" used for pounding raw ore to dust then further proccessed to extract gold by early Chinese miners around 1875 ,Neavesville , Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. This was my second attempt to find this remote and overgrown stamper battery about 3 hours walk up hill and through bush to get to it. I found this interesting artical about it:
"I returned to Neavesville, somewhat disillusioned, and once more joined the small community. There was much evidence of the past mining activity at Neavesville, there was one battery standing complete in Neavesville, the story being that after being erected, the big suction gas engine which was to drive the battery would not operate at the high altitude (some 2,500 feet). There were ten head of stamps, hopper and jaw crusher, berdans, and Wilfrey [Wilfley -- E] table, all set up, but had never crushed a single ton of rock. There was plenty of evidence that our predecessors had intended to work the battery, as they had cut and stacked many cords of mountain rata, a wood that had been in plentiful supply. A mixture of firewood, with a small amount of anthracite coal and coke was evidently the fuel necessary to run the plant."
Here is a link to the whole article.
http://www.ohinemuri.org.nz/journal/19/mining_venture_neavesville.htm
Here is a link about Hauraki Prospectors Association removing stampers from the Neavsville Area. http://www.goldmine-experience.co.nz/hpa-history.html

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