COLD IN ROAD METAL
■ ■ ■ • ■ \ ■ ' Parts of the road, by whioh the Devonshire village of Widecombe is . approached' are mealled with a peculiar type of granite, in which a geologist has recently discovered both gold and silver. _ A ton of this peculiar rook may contain from 3s to 30s ( worth of gold, an/1 as much as two-thirds o fan ounce of silver, worth rather less than 2s. Many tons of similar rock have been built into the walls lining the roads and enclosing the moor pastures in the’ neighbourhood. Hundreds of tons of the rock occur among the loose boulders of barren granite strewn over the local moorland. The “vein” from which these gold-bearing boulders have been derived has not yet been discovered.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12024, 30 December 1924, Page 3
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122COLD IN ROAD METAL New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12024, 30 December 1924, Page 3
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