GOLD AT KAWARAU

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 102, 24 January 1933, Page 8

GOLD AT KAWARAU

Run of Rich Yields Appears

to be Maintained further claims started Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, Jan. 23. The run of rich yields from claims in the Kawarau Gorge appears to be fully maintained. The ground continues to be very rich, but the aggregate weekly yield depends on the amount of dead work found necessary. No definite figures for the week are available but those privileged to watch the daily operations of washing up, and they arc many, have no doubt as to the richness of the ground. Rich ground still extends ahead in tunnels, and in respect of one, prospects of another big week are considered likely. Some indication of the extent of the revival in mining is found in the quarterly returns of the local mining registrar. During the past three months 3000 applications were lodged in the district operated from Cromwell, and of these 246 were in the Cromwell court lu the Cromwell oflice 17 < miners’ rights Were.issued for the same Two additional ventures in the vicinity of the rich claims at Kawarau Gorge have been commenced. One is a tunnel some 200 yards down stream from Mr. Bell and party’s sluicing claim, or about midway between that claim and the claim operated by Messrs. Bell and K Sonie few years ago a local party spent a good deal of money piercing the clay bottom with a tunnel In the hope of striking a payable gutter. finally they gave up the task. The tunnel has now been reopened and is .being cleared out, and the intention of the present prospectors is to rise up through the bottom to the alluvial ground above and prospect at that level. From what can be gathered, there is every reason to hope that the proposal for temporary darns to hold back the waters of Lakes Wanaka and Hawea during the next winter will be put into effect The building of'the necessary structure to hold Lake Hawea back is considered to present no difficulty but damming of Lake Wanaka is considered to be a bigger task, there being evidently some doubt regarding a suitable bottom. _____