SAYING GOLD ACCOMPLISHED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1396, 9 May 1868, Page 3

SAYING GOLD ACCOMPLISHED.

We have had a very convincing proof of the possibility of saving all gold contained in quartz afforded to us during the past week. A scientific gentleman in this city had, we had been informed, succeeded'in saving gold in large proportion from small quantities of stone, similar samples of which yielded scarcely a trace of the precious metal. This gentleman received from us a piece of stone from the Tapu, in which gold could not be seen, and which was considered of no value, and subjecting 100 grains of this stone to his process obtained from it 6 grains of gold. The next trial will, we understand, be made upon tailings taken from machines now at work at the Thames. The result will be looked forward to with interest. By the process adopted we are informed there can possibly be no loss of gold. It remains of course to be seen whether the system can be made to work well and cheaply on a largo scale ; if so, we shall hear of few bad claims at the Thames, for we verily believe that in nine cases out of tea where ground is abandoned as turning out less than a payable quantity of gold per ton, tho fault lies not with the quartz, but with the machinery, the gold being so light and mixed with iron pyrites as to offer the greatest possible difficulty to its extraction.