GOLD DREDGING IN N.Z.
PRODUCTION SHOULD BE TREBLED. ( Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Oct .10. "Production from the gold dredges in New Zealand should be trebled within the next year or two," said the Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines, commenting on the improved outlook in the gold industry. He said that important developments would take place during 1939, when five new dredgis, among the largest and most modern in the world, would begin operations in the South Island. Mr. Webb added that the output from dredges should far more than offset the decrease which was occurring in quartz mining. An effort was being made to discover new payable quartz fields to be worked with the latest methods of treating low grade ore, and for this purpose the Mines Department had been liberally subsidising mining propositions, which had been favourably reported on.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 240, 11 October 1938, Page 5
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