MAORI GOLD DREDGE.
Maori Gold, Ltd., reports that the new area at Callaghan's is proving exceedingly hard, and bottom has oniy been reached in the last day or two. Eighteen ounces of gold have been obtained from a narrow face with a depth of about 20 feet. It will probably be two or three weeks before a decent-sized working -face can be opened out and another return secured. The machinery is running well, but-, dt*s to the hard ground, tea* 1 experienced with a bush. &ti the bottom tumbler, and the necessary adjustments put the dredge out of operation for four days. The spring steel bucket lips are not standing up to the hard ground, and are being replaced by manganese steel lips, the first of which will arrive in about 10 days. The company has almost a complete string of spare buckets, so that the lips will not involve a long cessation of dredging operations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 14
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