THE "WILBERFORCE REEFS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8310, 8 May 1905, Page 3

THE "WILBERFORCE REEFS

DE BELL'S REPORT. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May «• Dr Bell, who was recen-tly appointed director of the Geological Survey Department, has won at workinWestland for some weeks P as^*~J already has furnished a V^hmin^y tej?^ to the Minister of Mines on the Überfo.oe reefs. He states that as the region is one ot great promise he feels sanguine as to va potentialities. Interstratified a-ate 9 and »na stones prevail in the country . «***•_.££ these have been cut by dark basic eruptives oi the slates and eandstones, the &*f ™»j varies, but in general the' trend » wes and south, -while the inclination of **<» mpis westward at sixty degrees. The region shows considerable faulting, but apparently not™ an alarming extent. The prewnoe or tM eruptives is a most hopeful sign, M *°g" *£ this nature are as a rule intimately connected with large metalliferous yc-xns. Wilson's Reward is practically the , only Si SJ^^tSffS&JS*..** extend* for at least 400 it It » ?* ate r reefd ee f »t ito widest part the width of th« reef » not under 21l£ «a only narrow horses of country rock" occur within this diMnce. This great width, however, is byno^i constant, and normally it is much ""*"£.«■ The quartz is very favourable m appearance and $? from crystalline. <?old. is distinctly visible, and iron pyrites, which .is a common mineral within quartz, is, it is said, very auriferous.