ARLTUNGA GOLDFIELD

Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 15 April 1903, Page 21

ARLTUNGA GOLDFIELD

LONDON, April 7.

Five Arltunga prospecting companiei havebcu registered, with a gross capi tal of £8500.

The following (says the Adelaide Register? is a report received by the Cullingworth Centralia Prospecting Syndicate in Adelaide from Mr Sydney Cullingworth, a well-knowu prospector, noted for his saution. It r dated March 4 : —

" Winnecke's Reward, or Paddy's Goose.—There 'seems every probability of this developing into a payable mine, but at presen'^ it can only be regarded as a surface show pure and simple. It consists of a hill, rising; about 150 ft above the level of the plain.Across the top of this hill, starting fromi the western side, several veins outcrop, and! can be traced in an easterly direction. Al*/ the veins, however, disappear info the hilll again before the plain is reached, with one> exception, which can be seen running, into' the Junction claim. As the whole' of ' tha top of the^iH is covered with loose stones and boulders of quartz, it- is -not possible? to state the number >f the outcrop's. There' appear to be-- three distinct mai sC' outcrops of quarts* add smaller veins.". : Ttie ' quartz contains -seams and -patches of' ironstone, and it is in these seams and "patches" the bulk of. the gold is found. The 1 - white quartz itself contains only, a small quantity of gold. One outcrop appears to be some* 15ft to 20ft wide in places, another sft t» . 6ft, and the others much smaller. Beforo the value of the mine can be determined! two questions must be answered. One is, Will the outcrops maintain their size when' cut below the surface? The second is, -Is there a sufficient quantity of ironstone and!' honeycombed rock to make the whole o£ the veins valuable? .Neither. of these questions* can be answered at present. The only work done is a short cut just underneath, the outcrop at the western end of the hilJ. Here, where cut into, the reef is certainlybroken and disturbed, which, however, may not prove anything.. The other question, cannot be answered 'definitely either, bub I am inclined to think there will be large quantities of stone which will pay for milling. Undoubtedly some "of the ironstona and some of the honeycombed quartz showing where ironstone or pyrites has been ara very rich in gold." - --