{"id":11729,"date":"2021-09-07T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/?p=11729"},"modified":"2023-09-04T16:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:33:25","slug":"waiuta-things-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/waiuta-things-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s so great about Waiuta"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiuta there are plenty of things to do. The richest gold field in New Zealand was an almost vertical quartz reef. The mine depths were almost 900 metres (275 below sea level). Gold values ensured the mine was very profitable. On 9 July, 1951 the Blackwater shaft collapsed with flooding, pouring into the narrow shaft. The mine was rapidly abandoned as Consolidated Goldfields (NZ) Ltd decided it was uneconomic to repair the damage. The single source of income evaporated and the town\u2019s inhabitants left.<\/p>\n<p>Today Waiuta is a ghost town and emblematic of abandoned mining enterprises. Waiuta is a photographer\u2019s delight. Joseph Divis, former miner, would agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,18,68],"tags":[],"filter_destinations":[180,91,134,329],"filter_categories":[254,218,53],"filter_topic":[168],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Waiuta Things To Do &amp; Places To See - Best Bits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Waiuta things to do. The richest gold field in New Zealand was an almost vertical quartz reef. 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