PROSPECTING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 687, 11 December 1909, Page 3

PROSPECTING.

MINERALS IN THE EUAHINES. Efforts are still being made to oiploit the mineral wealth which some believe to bo hidden in largo quantities in the Euahino 'Ranees. Uno prospector, who has just returned from'a remote part of the mountains, states that he has boon prospecting there, at one of a party ' pf three for somo ten months, and, Hiatlher i? m'J ck n , lodo oaring copper, silver, and gold. Ihoy haio put in a drive 87ft. long, and sunk about 22ft., at which point the* eaine to the lode. He states that it clo-=elv re- ' semblcs the rock at'the celebrated Mount trail lime, in fasmania, and that an assay shows it to bo north £23 per ton. Copper, in the form of a sulphide, is the ruling qunntitv, and sil- '*■ ver comes next, while the gold is described as traces. The spot is approached from Manea- ■, w_cka, and is not far from a site where another,* Party has boon working for somo years. One of tho three prospcctois who havo made ijie, latest fiild has been prospecting in the district for about seven years. Application is being mado to tho Government for assistance to fnrthor the, work, and for all proper rights and '' privileges, and it is proposed to form a syndicate with a viow to moro coniprcho&sivo" pro, ■ spccting. ■ v