RICH ORE FOUND

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 10

RICH ORE FOUND

KALGOORLIE ROMANCE

MINE NEARLY ABANDONED

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, December 14. According to reports coining from the west Kalgd'orlie now tanks among the Soundest towns in Australia today. Tb» high price of gold has encouraged * great deal of prospecting, and inueh new country has been opened up. Kfllgooriic hds a Wonderful histdfy, and hae played an important part in thd development Of Australia, and it is certain that its days are fat fforii fiver. Last -weekend one of the richest pal'cels of dre ever treated in Western Australia was cleaned up at Ealgddi'lie, The sample Was reminiscent of the Sefisittidnal yields of earlier days, and came frd* the Lady Gladys Blind at MullineV Three and ft half tons of ore returned £)34d* 7dWt, or approximately an. average of 20730Z to the ton, Withdut tailing*, which are said to 100 extremely lien. There is quite a romance connected with this find, for tlid oWiiefs were,"on the point of abandoning the mine in September last. The claim has yielded in the three months abdtit £23,000 worth of gold frdrti 55 toils of otc. The ore was cdlltuinec! iii lii bags Of iicti divt, and was closely guarded throughout .-treatment. It was the second i'ieji parcel to be produced from the Lady Gladys mine; arid far exceeded the first; which yielded 1733 jjoz from 62 tdilS of ore brdken and treated by the driginal hoMers of tlid lease, Messi's. Eoiul and Muliins, last September. A feature of the latest ore was the consistency of the return ffdiii each bag. From the comffiencenient of the crushing there Was little variation in the yiolds. fhe Lady Gladys Co. took an option 6vcr the mine in October last and expects to have the purchase price, £17,000, befdre Christinas, The mine was pegged by Messrs. Edzul aftd Mullifl* several months agd, and they were dn the pdlnt of abandoning it when Muliins, as hd iva^ packing Up camp, noticed some pl'dffiising stdno near a rabbit buri'dW. Thia fie decided to sample, "just for Itlek." A gdod tail Cf gdld Was secured, With the result that the men decided td give the claim afl other trial. Within a few weeks they had broken 02 tons of rich arc, which yielded about £13,000 of gold. Tho option is close to the old Lac'ly Gladysi miiio Which,, in the early •lays oi' geld mining in. Western Australia, yielded 17,0006z of gold from 16,000 t6nS of ore. Several shafts have now been sunk, and development work U preceding 4sa<jfc' " J~ __^ "