A British cruiser is examining Bird Island, one of tho Sandwich Group in order to ascertain whether it is suitable for a coalinK station.
No modern methods arc used for getting gold from quartz in Corea. _ Blasting powdor is unknown. The "rock is broken by building a fire, against it, thon when it becomes hot water is thrown upon it, and this cracks tho rookj fhe bits are laid upon a flab stouo, and big round rocks are rolled ovor thorn again and again to crush thorn; 50 per cent of the gold bcinsr thus lost. There are no pumps, no quicksilver, and no chemicals, g'uch of the gold as js gotten comes from washing the sand and crushed rock in hand pans, and in the winter tho rock is crushed and boiled to froo it from gold,
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7959, 30 October 1894, Page 3
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