PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19267, 8 March 1937, Page 13

PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

WORKING OLD DIGGINGS

“A WASTE OP MONEY”

MODERN METHODS NEEDED

(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The definite opinion that much of the assistance now granted to gold prospectors working ground and tailings that had been worked three or four times by early diggers, and since then bad been worked two or three times'.by Chinese, was a positive waste of money was expressed by the Minister of Mines, the Hon. I’. ('. AA'clib. in an interview this morning. Uie Minister said lie could not sec any possible hope of developing any areas in that way.

‘Easily won gold,” said the Alinister

“has been won bv early experienced diggers and with all (he expenditure of money through the. Unemployment- Board on prospecting in those areas not one mine, has been discovered worth mentioning. Nevertheless, a lot of useful information has been collected as a result of all (lie prospecting, and a considerable amount of gold lias been won, but we have now reached the stage when the latest scientific knowledge must be brought into play and the most modern machinery utilised in order to work lower-grade deposits on a, large and economic sonic. **