LUCKY STRIKE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4818, 2 August 1939, Page 7

LUCKY STRIKE

RICH PATCH OF GOLD REEF. One of the richest parcels of gold ore ever treated in Western Australia was cleaned up in one day by Mr. J. Corrott and his son, of Morley's Find, Kalgoorlie. Twelve hundredweight of ore yielded 1727 ounces of gold, worth about £15,000. Making their phenomenally rich gold striKe, the two men remained silent until they had won £15,000 worth of gold. "We went to work calmly but purposefully for three days," said the father. "Had we told anyone the entire world would have known within a few hours, and one of us would have had to guard the shaft with a shotgun. As it was, we just acted as if nothing hap hapepned, and nobody was any the wiser till the ore had been taken from the mine and treated and the gold lodged in the bank. In places it looked as if the quartz was in the gold, rather than the gold in the quartz."

The ore was picked from a patch in a reef which had given consistent returns of more than five ounces a ton at the battery. The find was made last year by the son on a prospecting area which had been abandoned. Last year father and son obtained 1200 ounces, worth nearly £II,OOO, and this year—apart from the latest yield—4oo ounces worth £3600.

Having met with hard times as a farmer Mr. Carrott decided two years ago to take up mining because it f-ould not make him any poorer. He and his son are £59,600 richer since then, for, in addition to the gold they have obtained, a mining company has given them £30,000 for an ontion.