GOLD RESOURCES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 9, 12 January 1932, Page 11

GOLD RESOURCES

DEVELOPMENT URGED

AUSTRALIA'S SCHEME

The opinion that a revival of 'thai gold mining industry.in New Zealand; would be a.n important factor in bringing prosperity back to the country was expressed by Professor Janies Park, Professor of Mining at the Otago .'lTni< versity, and Dean of the Mining Faculty, in a conversation ■with. a. "Post" representative on his arrival at .Wellington this '. morning by . the Maungauui from Sydney. Professor Park has been on a business visit to Australia. • . \

It was a rather singular thing;.He said, that the first industry to recover after a severe depression was. gold mining. While in Victoria and Western Australia ho afonnd that considerable attention was being devoted to the.de-1 velopmeiit. of low-grade gold ores.: Iri such an industry, however, it had been' shown that success could "0n1y ."...-, ba achieved by adequate development- an<l the provision of large treatment plants< This necessarily.. involved the .spending of large sums of money. .The industry; had been "carried on successfully ,ii» America.for the past twenty-five years. In Victoria and Western Australia subsidies were being given, to .unemployed gold miners, and in the'former State the - amount of. gold taken front the country last year was double that of the previous year. This proved tJhe success of the Government's scheme for developing the industry. The gold was obtained from two sources—quarts lodes and alluvial diggings. In Western. Australia the gold was obtained mainly; from largo low-grado lodes. " The great success achieved itf those two States should encourage the Government of New Zealand to spend a reasonable sum of money to seiid prospectors out into the baekblocks," said Professor Park. "In every case, however, this should be done under expert supervision." ■ ■' '■