This popular historic reserve is where the Victoria Battery complex was built in 1897, to process ore being produced at the Martha, Waihi and Grand Junction mines. The installation utilised the cyanide process for the extraction of gold and silver from crushed ores for which the New Zealand Government had purchased the patent rights. This was a major engineering complex
Victoria Battery is on the Paeroa-Waihi section of the Hauraki Rail Trail.
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