KAWARAU GOLD MINING.
TO THE EDITOR | Sir,—Mr Sligo mentioned in his lei‘or of the 20t.1i inst. Unit old miners will say they novnr found gold beneath the old deposit, called the “ Old Man,” or Maori bottom. Though no modem river deposits from the ernss-enUing of the. glacier gold-bearing drifts arc found under the Maori bottom, the old glacier leads din under the Maori bottom and lie close to and take, the shape of lock on t.ho bottoms of the lake beds of Otago. Those leads are covered with a deposit, 0 f mar ] or clay, and the Maori bottom is the fop deposit. Nasoby, St. Bath nils, Cambrians and Matakanui are built on the? Maori bottom, and the. glacier leads dip under those towns. If the position was reversed, and the quartz drifts were the top deposits, Otago would be the greatest gold-yielding province in the world, as it is owing to their depth that only the fringes of those, leads have been cross-cut by tho modern rivers.—l am, etc., C. Fahey. June 29.
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Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 12
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174KAWARAU GOLD MINING. Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 12
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