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Silverton Image

Silverton Battery 1892 detail

Detail. The large turbine pipe can just be made out near the left hand end of the large wooden flume. The much smaller flume in background may have been the terminus of a Mangatoetoe water race.

Silverton Battery Site
Silverton Battery 1892 detail

Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • Prospecting Waihi
  • Two Companies Would Start to Mine Martha Hill
  • The First Martha Battery (started May 1882)
  • Waihi Battery (started June 1882)
  • Martha (Extended) Battery March 1883
  • Silverton Battery June 1891
  • Union Battery 1899
  • Time Line
  • Sources
  • Images
  • Map

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  • Royal Standard Mine

  • Coal Mines

  • Waihi Street Names

  • Waihi Gladstone Gold-mining Company Battery

  • Waihi Municipal Water Supply Dams

  • Heritage on the Hauraki Rail Trail Cycleway

    • Waihi Dredging Plant
    • Low Level Water Race - Victoria Battery
    • Tramway to Victoria Battery
    • Cyclists and Walkers
  • Waihi Mill Stream Heritage

  • Isdale on Owharoa

  • Silverton Battery Site

  • Water-Power Dams

  • Samuel and Ellen Chalton, Netherton

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Silverton Battery Site

The site on the Ohinemuri River generally known as the Silverton Battery hosted several gold saving batteries, belonging to separate companies, over a period of 32, or so, years (1882-1914). Several prominent companies and mining men were involved with this battery over these many years. It is Waihi's earliest remaining battery site.

A History of the
Waihi/Martha/Silverton/Union Battery
Waihi
1882 – 1915

This document explores some of the history of this site. It was written for Waihi Walkways by E. Lens 2017.

Presented here is the bulk of the document, as text. The complete document, fully referenced, with images, maps and appendices, is available as a PDF (20mb) here.

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Executive Summary
Introduction
Prospecting Waihi
Two Companies Would Start to Mine Martha Hill
The First Martha Battery (started May 1882)
Waihi Battery (started June 1882)
Martha (Extended) Battery March 1883
Silverton Battery June 1891
Union Battery 1899
Time Line
Sources
Images
Map
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