PADDY'S POINT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22212, 15 March 1934, Page 15

PADDY'S POINT

TO TIIE EDITOR. Silt, —When passing tlie above claim on the Central Otago road T Lave frequently stopped and had n look at their operations. The sluicing is done with a wonderful amount of system. and the overburden of the cement is being rapidly removed. This overburden is, I understand, paying operations pretty well, but I think the main, and certainly the most interesting, result from the point of view of both the shareholders and the province is the peculiar strata and great extent of the cement conglomerate which each paddock at Paddy's Point is disclosing. The straight fault line between the eastern reef and the conglomerate, the same as at Blue Spur and Wctherstones, is in evidence, and this has continued unbroken for at least half a mile. The body of conglomerate lying west of this must be immense. The nature of the cement has been disclosed here and there, showing a red crust on the top and blu»

down a few feet. Where they are sluicing at present a strange variation occurs, which, in my opinion, should be investigated by a proficient geologist before it is entirely covered up with the tailings of the next paddock. A strange pug seam with a certain amount of coal in it cuts diagonally across the cement formation, and it would appear to me as if it marked the contact of two distinct cement formations. An investigation of this when the paddock is well cleaned up may lead to better knowledge of the cement's origin and structure as a whole. Although some very attractive finds of gold have been made elsewhere in the Otago province the greatest field of all still lies at our back door in the Tuapeka cements. The opening is there for large capital and mass production methods. —I am, etc., NOX-SHAREHOLDER.