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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9187, Issue XLI, 11 April 1910, Page 5

In the Bay of Islands a chance of making money out of buried wealth is talked of, and the story is a rather interesting one. In the old days (says the Star), when the Bay of Islands was the chief coaling centre for all the big ocean vessels visiting New Zealand, all kinds of vessels would berth at Opua. It was a common thing for ships to carry freight from overseas to the Thames, and then, having disposed of their cargo, proceed to Opiia to take in a fresh cargo of Kawakawa coal. Before leaving the Thames they would take in ballast, and the material most used was mining tailings." Thousands of tons of Thames tailings were therefore carried to Opua, and dumped out at a certain spot under the lee shore. Since those days a better method of treating ore has been brought into operation, and a good deal of what was considered waste in the old times has been re-treated at the Thames, and worked at a profit. The question now arises as to whether it would be worth recovering the huge pile _of material at Opua and again treating it under modern methods in search of gold.

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