A RICH STRIKE
! WONDERFUL GOLD YIELD. n West Australia has gone one better, 1 says the Sydney "Sun." New, South - Wales and Victoria have had their rich gold finds recently, nnd not to bo out- - done West Australia reported a truly 1 sensational yield the other day. Three • miners at Mount Magnet, named Best, - Burt and Morellini, working a claim i called Tho Gift, have just crushed throe - hundred-weight of stone for a return of 1 fi-llfw. of gold, which is equal to 45600z. -' to the ton. Mount Magnet is an old :■ miniii" town in the Murchieon goldt field, 480 miles from Perth. s Tho ether "strikes" woro reported mat r month. At tho 325 ft. level of the famous Long Tunnel Mine at Gimdagal f very rich gold-bearing oro was found in - cnlcite. In this mine in 1912 two i hnrdred-wcight of stone yielded 35 per - cent, of gold. Tho rich find in Vic's tovin was reported by tho Hit and Miss I prospecting party operating at Little , Dendigo, north of Ballarnt East. They i . opened up quartz which showed gold f freely associated with a sub-seam in - dyke formation,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 247, 6 July 1918, Page 8
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191A RICH STRIKE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 247, 6 July 1918, Page 8
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