New Zealand Gold Rush

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Across
  1. 2. Mining method using a portable rocker box with a cradle
  2. 4. Province where the New Zealand gold rush mainly occurred
  3. 7. Number of Chinese females among the 2,641 men miners
  4. 8. A channel used to bring water to a sluice
  5. 12. Province where most of the Chinese miners came from
  6. 13. Frequent & tragic cause of death during the gold rush era
  7. 15. Area where Little Biddy began prospecting
  8. 16. Was once the biggest city in New Zealand as a result of gold mining
  9. 18. A legal right to extract gold from a specific piece of land
  10. 19. Location of a duffer rush on the West Coast in 1865
  11. 20. Welshman famed for his discovery of the Jones Creek field
Down
  1. 1. Fraudulent practice of adding gold to a mining site to make it appear more profitable
  2. 3. Legend has it "hordes" of miners came from here (actually only 500)
  3. 5. Mining method using a shallow pan to separate gold from river sediment
  4. 6. Mining method where water is directed through a sluice box to separate gold from gravel
  5. 9. Under British law, gold belonged to them
  6. 10. Unjustified entry tax on Chinese immigrants starting in 1881
  7. 11. The stuff left behind by running water (type of gold)
  8. 14. Māori chief who once found a potato-sized piece of gold
  9. 17. Catholic miners who came from the southwest of this country