PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 139, 15 June 1932, Page 9

PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

WORK IN SOUTHLAND. ACTIVITY NEAR RIVERTON. According to reports coming from a reliable quarter, mining is likely to lake a forward movement in the Round Hill locality and employment will be found for a number of men, writes the Riverton correspondent of a Southland newspaper. In the Longwood Ranges seekers are out after the precious metal, and one party of men which is being assisted by the Mines Department, under the unemployment scheme, has done remarkably well on one of tho old claims, having gone down a. considerable number of feet from where the original owners ceased operations. The Progressive League is also contemplating sending out a prospecting party. That the project will prove a success will be the wish of all associated with the town and the province generally. First-class samples of gold have been found in the last few weeks near the foot of the Wataroa Glacier, in Westland, where 25 prospectors, including half-a-dozen Christchurch men, are located. Their camps are situated from eight to 25 miles up the Wataroa Gorge, tho farthest inland being almost at the edge of the glacier. Much of this country has never been previously explored, and the prospectors have to traverse rugged and precipitous hillside and river beds in order to get likely gold-bearing places.