Jade Jewelry Industry

New Zealand Learning Adventures
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Industries - in the zone

This Zone best shows the variety of the technologies and businesses that arrived here to build the mining and milling industries of the 1870s Guests can gain an overview or concentrate on the industries of most interest them. In this zone many industries are generally smaller operations and the people involves can provide us with help to understand them. There are also several abandoned operations enabling us to safely explore areas where they operated.
*Gold mining*	Gold By visiting different sights interested groups learn about the formation, rushes, extraction methods, incentives, transportation.
Coal mining	Coal Studies involve Settlements, transportation, uses, markets, history, difficulties, business science and engineering.
Timber Milling	Timber Growing, milling, transportation, conservation, management, sciences, engineering and uses.
*Greenstone (jade) factory*	Jade Once the prize of the early Maori is now an attraction for the tourists. Visits and talks provided by the factories enable guests to see how this industry works starting with the the gathering of the stone to its final presentation as items of jewelry
*Glass factory*	Glass A visit to the factory enables guests to watch the craft people transform the glass powder into beautiful ornaments. See the business structure and explore the sciences involved including risk management and financial costs.
Transportation	Transportation Studies continue with road and rail ways that cope with swamps and flooding rivers We also find here steam operated trains.
*Farming*	Farming Mainly dairy & beef farms occupy lands where old rainforest and mines once thrived. Insights reveal destructive using modern sciences.
*Bushman's Centre*	Tourism The main road through the zone is known as one of the world's best tourist trails. We explore the services, transport facilities, businesses and activities offered to visitors to enhance their enjoyment of this wondrous land.
Harbours	Harbours Study enthusiasts explore river harbours with lots of issues to learn from.
Recreation	Recreation The locals enjoy hunting, visitors seek out motor bikes, caving, canoeing, walking and more.
Engineering & Physics	Engineering Interested guests take more time to understand the forces and movements involved with the large variety of bridges, mining structures, mills, steam engines, water wheels, road design, water management systems found with physics and chemistry.
	Fishing *Recreational and commercial fishing is found in the zone.*