GOLD FROM MOUNT OPHIR, OF BIBLE MENTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9010, 15 October 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

GOLD FROM MOUNT OPHIR, OF BIBLE MENTION.

On the identical spot where King Solomon procured "gold dust, peacocks, and monkeys" ft syndicate with £1,000,000 capital stock issued and a ten-stamp mill erected has just pounded out- £11,000. Mount Ophir, of scriptural renown, is close by. The old rocks, which were too low grade for King Solomon's reduction processes, are being ground up, and they average half an ounce to the ton. This goldfield of Solomon's, which has been idle all of thf'centuries till now, is in the Malay peninsula. The people who have gone in to develop it have had to cut seven utiles of road through the jungle and clear sixty miles of river. They are just beginning to realise on their investment. The company with the big capital has a concession on twenty square miles of this goldfield. The formation is black slate. A shaft sank one hundred feet on the lode has uncovered enough ore to keep the mill going a year. The ore will yield two ounces to the ton. In one ~place on the concession there is a hill two hundred and fifty feet high and.half a mile long. The company has tunnelled into this hill about half-way from the bottom and found ore ranging from seven pennyweights to seven ounces of gold. The reef varies in width from two to nine feet. Even the loose rocks scattered about on the hillside yield half an ounce of gold to the ton. The superintendent said to the American Consul recently : " I did not think there was anything of this kind so extensive in the world. Wherever you try you find gold." Raub is the modern name, of tH ancient El Dorado,