STATE GOLD MINES

Grey River Argus, 19 October 1936, Page 6

STATE GOLD MINES

West Coast Project DEVELOPMENTAL PLANS. Mr S. W. S. Strong, Mining En-gta-ocr for the West Const, is to ro operate with Air Lowes (Inspector ol Gold M'taes. Reefton) and Mr E. 0. MePh rso-n (Department of Industrial and Scicntifc Research) in the scheme of proposed ft'-’id tuning development the Reefton. South Westland, and otlmr Wt-st Coast districts, which has ',m>n •■nnounced bv the Minister of Mta*. Hon. P. C. Mr Strong -dates that already investigations by Mines Department exports have <1 '• e’osed the presence of lodrs and reefs district, as to which p’ans hav a been drawn up in detail, and on whtah vigorous exploration i,s about to be inaugurated. Several of the more like y areas have been decided upon for first consideratiopj stated Mr Strong. .Upon the arrival of Mr McPherson from Wellington, field operations will be started on a largo scale. Meantime, equipment and gear details are being worked out by Mr Strong. Eight men or.‘ required for proposed shaft-sink n „. hTs. sixteen mffn for funnelling vnrk. and about twenty men will b” •mt on trenching work in various areas There lia-s been a largo amount of nroßminary investigation carried u* The next stage of the prospecting <, *o make use of available labour at --,.,„e ■ri rates of pav on those p.articu>a- W’s Not on’v in the Reefton d'sH- : p‘ hut in various other districts ta fi,o roof ■bolt, active prospecting 'is nnd'C’ wav. 'though not on the same larrrn r-eale. Tn the Buller district, the M r k'h : nni, Stevenson Creek, and the r vo'l areas are now being prospected; nVn- tho Moonlight-Croesns area in the poiwrm'. and the Waik'iti (Be 1 ! Hill) nrpo whtah lately have yielded some v o r ,- o‘tracitivo samples of go’d-bea"-u- q-n-tz. Tn tho Taipo and Wntaroa r ,.-o-o ♦ - the south, several parties are mak'no- a. thorough search for rcef= in the more favourable country. Tt Tva.« ta.ta,resting to note, stated Mr that recent prospecting ear---(I out bv ATe-srs Guv .and Harvey tt>e WnHciH arcfi had loc:rt ! '<l sat- ’ foptorv evidence of goop gold-bear-'no- ou o " 1 /.. Tn this area. Tracks have b-on ent anp camps e=tnb>’irtiod at » b : gh altitude so that, with the com tag summer, ficjld operations Wil bcomb’eted close to the timber line, in' ini endeavour to. narrow down the reef area to a band of bedded slates. Tb : ' find is in virgin country, nnl th' l ' l prospect'ung operations -n the com* in ,r summer trill l*e -awaited with inlo'esit.