Gold Mining

The southern hemisphere's only still operational river ferry celebrates 130 years. Audio

To the Coromandel now where Anti-gold mining protesters have disrupted exploratory drilling at Karangahake once again at the weekend. Audio

A selection of some of the best Country Life stories from 2015. In this episode: Sovrano Limoncello, A Photographer Like Alice and Golden Memories Audio

Ross is a sleepy township near Hokitika that was settled in 1865 as a gold mining town. Biddy Manera was born there and has become an outspoken advocate for the community. She looks after the Catholic… Audio

Mining for gold on the West Coast has proved successful for Michael Phelps, but now he has decided to protect the remaining native forest on his land from future mining ventures by putting it into… Audio

Workers at the country's biggest gold mine, who'd been facing redundancy in two years time have been thrown a lifeline by their bosses. Audio

The mining company which owns the Reefton, Macraes and Frasers gold mines in the South Island, is suing the country of El Salvador after it was refused a mining permit to dig for gold there. Audio

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, George Davies, along with his mates Curly and Big Mac, gave up the struggle to survive in the city and travelled to the Howard goldfield in the Upper Buller… Audio

Historian Mark Derby and documentary painter Bob Kerr collaborate to remember the 1912 Waihi miners' strike in words and images in a book called Waiheathens. Audio