GOLD PROSPECTING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18465, 2 August 1934, Page 11

GOLD PROSPECTING

WEST COAST ACTIVITY ENGLISH COMPANY’S PLANS (Per Press Association.) WBgTFORT, last night. As a result of the visit of inspection, made .by Mr. Gerald Lovol. M.1.M.E., to the ‘Orion reef at Karamea, in the Bullet’ county, cabled advice has been! received from England that it is proA posed to expend £SOO per month in development and prospecting. The reef, which shows good payable values, i<s 40ft. in width and is situated within

and on the edge of a wide granite belt) which traverses the interior of the Kara* mea district. The conditions, therefore, are a new departure, geologically, in!' quartz mining. It is intended to drive along the course of the reef for a eon-, siderable distance. This, it is hoped, will establish large ore reserves.

Interesting visitors to town to-day were six ex-eoai miners of Milh-rtoiiv who, under the gold mining subsidy scheme, have .been doing development work in the backblocks at Karamea.: They have with them a bottle containing 9oz. of gold and also have some small nuggets. The gold has been got! by working under primitive methods, 'hut. they are bringing in a water supply for ‘fairly large scale, sluicing operations, from which much better returns in future are expected.

Waikohu County. Authority was ,gi\en for one vehicle to lie used only for the carriage of horses throughout the No. 4 district, and the extra vehicle authority was grunted.

A. W. ,T. Clavden, application for route license, Gisborne to To lvarakn and Kanakanaia, with the right, to deviate four miles from' these routes. —'The application was granted on the same terms and conditions as formerly.

E. McGrannaehan, application for route license, To Karaka to Kanakanaia and To Karaka to Gisborne, with minor amendments. —The application was granted cm the same terms and conditions as formerly, and the amendments were approved. A. Hopps, application for an area license to cover the area within a radius of 20 miles of Gisborne, and from the southern portion of the Uawa C.ounty to Tolaga Bay.—The application was granted as formerly.