GOLD FROM IRON SANDS.
According to newspaper reports there are vast deposits of black sand, containing a small percentage of gold, on the "west coast of the South Island. Prospectors with quite crude appliances can apparently collect enough gold dust out of this black sand to make wages out of itj if they work good and hard. Now, although it may not be possible to send local relief workers to the South Island goldfields, why not convey some
of this black sand up here to North Island towns, where unemployment is so acute, and let relief workers collect what gold dust they can out of it with the old tin dish and fly catchers, and exchange the gold dust at local banks for their wages? The transport of large quantities of this black sand would also revive the stagnant shipping industry and liven up all branches of the transport business generally. Tile waste material after most of the gold has been extracted, could be used for reclamation work. BLACKSAND.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 243, 14 October 1931, Page 17
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