GOLD IN PAVEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1938, Page 12

GOLD IN PAVEMENTS

OLD ORE IN KALGOORLTE SYDNEY, August 13. Kalgoorlie. gold city of Western j Australia, boasts a main thoroughfare i —Hannan Street —where people dig] up gold in the street. From time to : time experienced prospectors catch sight of a gleam as they walk the | pavements, and they stoop to chip out with their penknives small pieces of! the precious yellow metal. ’ The story of how the gold got there , is told by Mr. Andrew Lennon, who i laid the footpaths for the municipal j council in 1899. When he secured the j contract he sought suitable metal to ! mix with a special composition for > the paths. Satisfactory ore was oh-1 tainable from the old Golden Zone mine, at the extreme northern end of the field. At that time the mine was

in the doldrums and was about to be closed dowm. The management offered Mr. Lennon 1000 tons of ore at 1/- a ton. While the ore w r as being treated i for mixing, Mr. Lennon made 50 secret dolly-pot tests, and found that it | averaged 4dwt to the ton. That w r as i too low a grade for mining in the j early days, because of the high cost ;of water. .“Now,” said Mr. Lennon, j “the tread of thousands of feet has : worn the pavements till pieces of gold in the ore have begun to show’. Other | pieces will show’ as time and man march on.” i To-day the mine from w’hich the ore came is being w’orked at. a good pro- , f,t - i - I— ? —