A little over 10 years ago, Melbourne novelist Madeleine Cleary discovered that her great-great-great grandmother, Catherine ...

A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849 ... Using a technique called hydraulic mining, they extracted $170 million in gold between 1860 and 1880. In the process, they devastated the landscape and choked ...

Captured in vivid detail, the shimmering pieces of metal are tiny reminders of the region's pivotal gold-rush era of the 1860s. As a dual citizen of New Zealand, I can say there are countless ...