What happened to our principals car (the narrative).

Personal inquiry reflection

My inquiry is going all right. I have put my craft under the lake to film. an we accidentally imploded it. I am now making the slide and uploading the video. I think I am going to finish it in time.

The rise and fall of Waiuta gold mine

The rise and fall of Waiuta gold mine

By Cameron

The ghost town is dotted with old broken wreckage's with moss infested chimneys that will rot for all eternity. The historic town is located at end of Snowy road. Waiuta was the South Island's biggest gold mine and at 1930 it reached around 600 people. It is also the most famous ghost town in the South Island.

History

In 1905 the gold reef was discovered. It was found on King Edward VII’s birthday so they called it Birthday Reef. In 1908 the first mine shaft the Blackwater Shaft opened. In total it was 567m deep. In 1926 a new mine opened called the Prohibition. In 1930 the population reached up to 600 people. In 1936 the Prohibition mine took over the work. It all ended in 1951 when the Prohibition mine collapsed and the town was abandoned.

Gold and contamination

The Waiuta gold mines were the most wealthy mines of the 20th century in the South Island. The mine produced nearly 750,000 ounces of gold from 1.5 million tons of quartz. That is $1,869,255,217 in today's value. The level of arsenic is 33,000 times the safe limit for drinking water. There were 96 barrels of highly-contaminated arsenic material removed from the Prohibition site for treatment and disposal at a specialised facility. It cost $3.6 million to clear out the water.

Waiuta town

Waiuta was a sports town. It’s main sport was rugby but they also played tennis. Waiuta also had a bowling green. If you go there now you can see the rotting rugby poles swaying in the breeze. As the town was abandoned and Tony Mangan’s Family was last to leave. It was left it to the ghosts and modern age explorers.

Personal inquiry reflection

My inquiry is going good and I think I will get it done. I am behind schedule on my timetable but I still think I will get it done. I think I have achieved what I want to achieve and it has gone very good. 

Weekly reflection

This term we have have now got active with our personal project my timetable has helped me heaps. I have made a lot of changes to my timetable because of  so many new ideas. I have completed what I have planned to do and I have done heaps. My project feels like it is just the right size for my skill.👿👾👿😈👾😈

KNN The Importance of Integrity

Rapunzel scratch

In our class our teacher reads us a fairy tale and we make a scratch and our own version of the fairy tail. this is my scratch.

Use the arrow keys to move if you touch the portals you teleport. Don't touch the walls and try and make it to Rapunzel