Gold Prospector Not to Be Ousted With Electricity

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 243, 13 October 1937, Page 3

Gold Prospector Not to Be Ousted With Electricity

TORONTO, -The old-time gold prospector will go on. Electrical instruments may help in locating orc] bodies for swifter development, but they will not replace the professional gold-hunter who leads the way into new mining country. • Hans Lundberg, Toronto geologist and a proponent of the electrical system of uncovering ore bodies in Canadian properties, says that high cost would prevent extensive exploration by men equipped with the apparatus. “After new discoveries have been made by prospectors, geologists trainled to make competent deductions from the use of electrical and other scientific I I instruments can advise companies where I they may most profitably drill for ore, | but the finding of new 7 areas must be •left to the old-time prospectors because 'it is so much cheaper,” he said. | Mr Lundberg said the electrical method consisted of finding the conductivity of the ground. : The Ontario Government last week passed an ordcr-in-council permitting use of electrical methods by a company in locating underground deposits in I northern Ontario. I “Quartz has the least conductivity ‘and where it is found in the right formation there is a presumption of |gold,” he said. Sometimes gobi is ■found in sulphides with order minerals jand these give the greatest conductiviily. Findings are always checked by •the electromagnetic and other methods I before definite conclusions are reachled.* ’ I The electrical method is useful in locating other minerals than gold, deI dared -Mr Lundberg, who said a party 'now is in Newfoundland tracing a lead 'and zinc formation, another in north- ' western. Ontario checking a chromium, iThese arc in addition to seven parties 'using the method to check on gold deiposits in Quebec and Northern Ontario.

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