GOLD MINING.

Grey River Argus, 29 March 1922, Page 7

GOLD MINING.

NEW DEVELOPMENT’S. DUNEDIN, March 24. The Hon G. J. Anderson, referring to the activities of the Department of Mines, s-aid: There are good indications of gold at Thames, the scene of the big sensational rush in the sixties. Men are there ‘prospecting for new reefs, and endeavouring to discover the continuations of old ones. There exists a well-founded belief that the payable gold is not all taken out there. Another' old goldfield on the same peninsula., Coromandel, is also attracting attention again. One of the mines that was supposed to lie worked out is being reopened. Th oi enterprise of jtho Am trie an. party at Rimu Flat, near Hokitika, is being rewarded. The dredUng there is turning out all right. The Americans are operating on a field that was tested by Government drill's some dears ago. The results of that, testing were published at the time in a. Department report, which was available to anybody and everybody, but it was left to the Americans to make practical use of that report. They brought over their own dredge, set it up at Rimu Flat, and have done so well with it during a. trial of three of four months, that they are talking of placing a. second dredge in the vicinity. There is a proposal for further prospecting for gold in Otago, but as the ■letails are not yet formulated, T cannot say anything about the proposals. As to coal prospecting, parties are out in various parts oi the West Coast of the South Island. The Reefton people are hopefully turning their attention to coal, being now assured that huge unworked beds are at their service. and that a< good market t mi be found for the coa.l. if satisfactory arrangements'can he made for railing and shipping. At Qnakaka. in the Nelson district, a. company is just about ready to start smiting iron ore. T regard this as a. promising enterprise.