GOLD MINE AND DREDGE
Moonlight Goldflelds first wash-up in new face was 16oz for ,110 hours sluicing. A , Blackwater Mines return for. August was: Crushed 3740 tons, yielding 1910 fine oz' of gold from all sources, the value of which, when taking gold at 168s per fine oz, was £16,044. Working expenses, not including ordinary or war duty, were £8248; development expenditure was £634, and capital exexpenditure was £585. Maori Gold, Ltd., reports the breaking of a shaft and dredge ceased operating on August 27, but resumed on Monday, September 1. Returns up to breaking of shaft were 390z of retorted gold for. 84 hours from 6000 yards, and since the dredge resumed 41oz lldwt have been obtained in 68 hours from 5000 yards. . (
(PA.) GREYMOUTH, Sept. 6. Snowy River dredge returned 207|0z for 124 hours from 32,000 , yards. Argo return totalled 38oz for 124 hours from 11,000 yards.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1941, Page 3
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149GOLD MINE AND DREDGE Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1941, Page 3
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