GOLD IN MARLBOROUGH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 4

GOLD IN MARLBOROUGH.

CO-OPERATIVE MINERS’ PROFIT. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, April 7. A man walked into the Express office this morning and electrified a reporter by dumping on his desk £6OO worth of gold. The visitor was Mr W. Harrison, a well-known mining expert, and tho gold was the proceeds of ten days’ work by four men at tho Dominion Consolidated mine, Wakamarina, formerly known as the Golden Bar.

Mr Harrison and the three other practical miners are working tho mine on the co-operative basis, and they washed up yesterday after ten days’ work, during which they mined and treated 283 tons of quartz for a return in bullion of 157 ounces of melted gold, valued at just £GOO. This is equal to 11 dwts per ton. In addition they secured from, the ore a ton of scheelite, valued at £6O, which will just pay tho expenses of mining, leaving the £6OO worth of gold as profit. The quartz was obtained by means of tunnels in the hillside, and later a shaft may be put down to connect up various levels.

Mr Harirson is fully confident that ho will return a still bigger yield at the next wash up. Incidentally, he is a firm believer in the future of the Wakamarina field if properly worked, and he says that there is still plenty of alluvial gold in the river, where he washed up 10 ounces himself during tho Christmas holidays.