The Victoria Gold Stamping Battery

Today we packed kids, dog and Grandma into the car and drove the hour to Karangahake Gorge so the older ones could bike with their father through the trail along the old railway line. Afterwards, we picnicked beside the  old stamp battery. There are only the concrete foundations left, but scattered around and inside are fascinating rusting ruins of the original machinery.

In 1896 the Victoria Battery was the largest Quartz crushing plant for 
gold extraction in Australasia.