Where to Find Kauri Gum?

As the trees die and fall, the ground where they grew becomes littered with kauri gum. Over time, this often gets covered by soil or swamps. Most kauri gum is found in Northland.

Is kauri gum valuable?

A retiree who paid a suspected world record $16,000 for a lump of kauri gum at auction admits getting "carried away" and is now wondering how to break the news to his wife. The 9.9kg lump of resin went up for sale at Cordy's auction in Auckland yesterday with a reserve of $1500.

Where was kauri gum dug?

Gum-diggers were men and women who dug for kauri gum, a fossilised resin, in the old kauri fields of New Zealand at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries.