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GOLD DISCOVERY CENTRE - WAIHI NEWSLETTER No3 - MAY 2014 OUR PROJECT PARTNERS WAIHI Southern Coromandel OPENING SOON September 2014 IT’S ALL GO IN WAIHI! The GDC’s future admin block is starng to take shape. Local contractors Baker Construcon have finished the demolion phase and started re-lining the walls in preparaon for finishing works. The team have also started demolion works on the ground floor of the exhibion space in preparaon for laying a new (level) concrete floor and building new external and internal walls. EXHIBITION IN FULL-SWING There has been excellent progress on the models, interacves and audio-visuals for the exhibion over the last month. CE Eddie Morrow visited the exhibion builders in Wellington recently to check that everything was going to plan and was staggered by the level of detail, complexity and the sheer scale of the exhibion components. MARKETING THE GDC TO THE WORLD WEB SITE: The Gold Discovery Centre web site is now live! Ongoing development work carries on in the background with local web developers Lumina Web Soluons and the site will connue to evolve and grow through to our grand opening in September. www.golddiscoverycentre.co.nz TRENZ - the largest tourism trade show in NZ is on from Monday through to Wednesday next week at The Cloud in Auckland. The Gold Discovery Centre & Waihi Gold Mine Tours will be presenng as part of the Desnaon Coromandel cluster and the show will be followed by a post-TRENZ industry famil visit to Waihi for trade representaves on Thursday the 22nd May. KEY DATES COMING UP June Waihi Information Centre and the Vision Waihi Trust move operations to 124 Seddon St. May/June Stripping/demolition of internal space for exhibition continues. Late June Bogger to be craned in to it’s new home in upper Seddon St. Above: Baker Construcon stripping the old lining from the garage level walls. Leſt: The Lego underground mine beginning to take shape. Right: An early stamper baery scene. Across the road, Carter’s Contractors are currently preparing the site for the big orange bogger. The massive underground mining machine will make quite a statement as it takes pride of place opposite the Sterling Hotel in upper Seddon Street. We expect the bogger to aract a lot of aenon and become a ‘must-collect’ photo for visitors to Waihi. Carter’s Contractors preparing the site for the big orange bogger.
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GOLD DISCOVERY CENTRE - WAIHI NEWSLETTER No3 - MAY 2014
OUR PROJECT PARTNERS
WAIHISouthern Coromandel
OPENING SOON
September 2
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IT’S ALL GO IN WAIHI!The GDC’s future admin block is starting to take shape. Local contractors Baker Construction have finished the demolition phase and started re-lining the walls in preparation for finishing works.The team have also started demolition works on the ground floor of the exhibition space in preparation for laying a new (level) concrete floor and building new external and internal walls.
EXHIBITION IN FULL-SWINGThere has been excellent progress on the models, interactives and audio-visuals for the exhibition over the last month.CE Eddie Morrow visited the exhibition builders in Wellington
recently to check that everything was going to plan and was staggered by the level of detail, complexity and the sheer scale of the exhibition components.
MARKETING THE GDC TO THE WORLDWEB SITE: The Gold Discovery Centre web site is now live! Ongoing development
work carries on in the background with local web developers Lumina Web Solutions and the site will continue to evolve and grow through to our grand opening in September. www.golddiscoverycentre.co.nz
TRENZ - the largest tourism trade show in NZ is on from Monday through to Wednesday next week at The Cloud in Auckland.
The Gold Discovery Centre & Waihi Gold Mine Tours will be presenting as part of the Destination Coromandel cluster and the show will be
followed by a post-TRENZ industry famil visit to Waihi for trade representatives on Thursday the 22nd May.
KEY DATES COMING UPJune Waihi Information Centre and the Vision Waihi Trust move operations to 124 Seddon St.May/June Stripping/demolition of internal space for exhibition continues.Late June Bogger to be craned in to it’s new home in upper Seddon St.
Above: Baker Construction stripping the old lining from the garage level walls.
Left: The Lego underground mine beginning to take shape.
Right: An early stamper battery scene.
Across the road, Carter’s Contractors are currently preparing the site for the big orange
bogger. The massive underground mining machine will make quite a statement as it takes
pride of place opposite the Sterling Hotel in upper Seddon Street. We expect the bogger to
attract a lot of attention and become a ‘must-collect’ photo for visitors to Waihi. Carter’s Contractors preparing the site for the big orange bogger.
