Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	37° 7' 52'' South , 175° 32' 19'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-37.13134,175.53868
GeoHash:	G#: rckuf2rq7
Köppen climate type:	Cfb : Temperate oceanic climate

Located between the foreshore and the Caledonia Mine. While the Caledonian uncovered a rich bonanza, the golden lode cut out virtually at Tookey's border. (Lake Wakatip Mail, 1874) gives a summary of the mine from its inception in 1868 to 1874, albeit with creative licence, it encapsulates how the dreams of prospectors, miners, shareholders can be dashed, and that nearby rich mines are no guarantee the lease you have invested your life savings will contain any gold. (Some grammar changes, and editing has occurred with the following quote)

'Tookeys is an unhappy sort of mine. It has existed on great expectations, principally owned in Sydney, where a large number of shares were skillfully palmed off during the height of the Thames gold mania a few years ago.

It has been persistently worked under the most depressing circumstances, on the belief that the lost lead of the Caledonian would one day be found in Tookey's.

What remains is a prosaic hole in the side of the bare hill, some ugly machinery, and sombre buildings, clay and crumbling stone, sloppy mud, bespattered timbers, and incessant pumping to keep the water down.

Parties of men work eight hour shifts digging out load after load of worthless dirt. There is no glittering caves, no cubes of crystal quartz all seamed with gold. Tookeys has sickened the heart by its long course of hope deferred, patience, and faith in its future, as an infatuation which has been the sole support of scores of proprietors, bounding their hopes to the phantom of good fortune.'

No minerals currently recorded for this locality.

Regional Geology

This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.

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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 1308452

Late Quaternary alluvium and colluvium Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Pakihi Supergroup Description: Unconsolidated to poorly consolidated mud, sand, gravel and peat. Comments: Zealandia Megasequence Terrestrial and Shallow Marine Sedimentary Rocks (Neogene) Lithology: Mud, sand, gravel, peat Reference: Edbrooke, S.W., Heron, D.W., Forsyth, P.J., Jongens, R. (compilers). Geology Map of New Zealand 1:1 000 000. GNS Science Geological Map 2. [12]

Late Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene 0.0117 - 0.781 Ma ID: 1359568

OIS5+-OIS2 (Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene) river and hill slope deposits Age: Pleistocene (0.0117 - 0.781 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Tauranga Group Description: Predominantly pumiceous sand, silt, mud and clay, with interbedded gravel and peat. Comments: Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene river and hill slope deposits. Age based on absolute age calculated from stratigraphic age range Lithology: Major:: {mud},Minor:: {sand, silt, clay, peat} Reference: Heron, D.W. . Geology Map of New Zealand 1:250 000. GNS Science Geological Map 1. [13]

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