GOLD IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 14

GOLD IN BRITAIN

;REVIVAL OF MINING CONTEM-

PLATED.

' Large quantities of gold (writes a correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian") have been won in other parts of Britain besides Wales, where a revival of gold-mining, with modern . machinery, Vis contemplated. There are several goldfields in Scotland. One is at Glenconner, in Clydesdaye; others at Wenlock and Crawfordmuir. All these were worked in the sixteenth and seventeenth -centuries, and there are records of nuggets of pure gold up to three pounds in weight having been discovered. One of Queen Elizabeth's prized possessions was a gold porringer presented to her by Sir Bevis Bulnier, made entirely of gold washed from the sand of Scottish rivers. At Kildonan, in Sutherlandshire, an apparently rich vein of gold was struck in 1868 by a returned Australian miner named Uilchnst. Nuggets worth as much a§ ±>Lo a piece were discovered, and about' seven hundred prospectors were soon on the spot, most of whom got nothing for then- pains I n 1911, there was another r"r- j° °n a small scale. bold has aJs- been found near Annan during the present century. Nearly all the streams which rise on Dartmoor f™ a c^ tain amount of gold in their beds so that miners when "streaming" la} AI 1 fl? V- c f£ und a Paying amount of gold both m Devon and Cornwall. Unthli^J^ °f Dean lies a S°ld «»f 2 milea lon,g composed of old red s doubter g°ld exists th«ein? gft