glacial deposits.* A good deal of alluvial gold and gold in the rivers had been obtained in this region. The possibility of any reef or large quantity of gold being exposed as the result of the earthquake waa rather remote. That was not to say that the slips may not have uncovered reefs, as he was quite well aware that in many parts of the world valuable reefs had been discovered by accidental means.
Professor Speight said that alluvial mining was still going on at Howard, just east of the Matakitaki Valley, and in the past there had been important diggings in this district.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 149, 28 June 1929, Page 10
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