WORLD'S GOLD RESOURCES

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 125, 30 May 1922, Page 3

WORLD'S GOLD RESOURCES

IMPERIAIL MNERAL RESOURCES BUREAU.

(ntoH \om own coitituramiNt.)

. LONDON, 21st April, The Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau has just issued an additional volume which is to form a section of the Annual Mineral Conspectus of the Bureau. Th^3 subject of the work is "Gold of ■ th» British Empire and Foreign Countries," and although nominally covering t.W period of seven years ended 31st December, 1919, the report will jbe found i\o contain more recent statistical puid otiW information relative to the Empire and\ to certain of the more important foreign' countries. In this the first year of publication, an effort has been made to fill1 in as far as possible the hiatus due to the war in the publications, relating to min.bg and .metallurgical statistics. '

A.great deal of up-tto-date information is contained in the preliminary chapters dealing with Progress -In the Metallurgy of Gold. Marketing .of Gold in recent years, Price of Gold, atid World's Production. Some twent>\' pages are devoted'to the New Zealand gold trade, and the chapter gives a con'derised history of the developments in eacl'i gold locality since the early days. Aa the information is supplied by experts ;in the Domin-, ion, it is reliable and calculated to serve its purpose well—to enable lihose in other parts of the Empire who are technically or otherwise interested in iihe New Zealand trade to obtain firet-hanid Knowledge of that country's resources.

All other parts'of the Empire are dealt with with equal thoroughness, antl thus the particular developments, the latest experiments, and the statistics of all gold-bearing countries is brought con veniently within the two ; covers of a single volume. '">