DISCOVERY OF GOLD

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 275, 20 November 1931, Page 4

DISCOVERY OF GOLD

Recently, says the "Christchurch Press," there has been discovered in the Karamea district, north of Westport, a goldbearing reef said to be one of the widest in the history of mining. It has been proved to be gold bearing over 20ft in width, and is reported to be gold bearing, by simple panning off, for a further 27ft. .making an estimated payable reef width of 47ft. One sample taken by a reliable prospector assayed gold and silver to the value of £34 per ton of quartz, and samples taken by a well-known mining engineer assayed an average of 46/10 per ton of quartz, over 12ft in width (taking the value of gold at only £4 per O'ince). At the southern end of the system the reef is reported 10ft in width and samples at this end are reported to have assayed ooz per ton. It is understood that Mr. H. R. Young, of Westport, a candidate for the Avon seat, is the vendor, and with the assistance of Mr. Robert English a company has been successfully floated to test and prove the claim. Should the investigations being made prove satisfacton r , the find must rank as one of the biggest payable reefs found in Australia or New Zealand.