BRITAIN’S GOLD MINES.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVI, Issue 4469, 8 September 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

BRITAIN’S GOLD MINES.

In tho wild Highland district of Kildonan expert gold-diggers are now at work searching for the yellow metal. Tents are pitched, and hopes run hign of big finds. , . But gold-mining in tho British Isles is no new thing. Ouo mine near Barmonth has paid dividends varying from 40 to 6 per cent, since 1900. Not long ago a labourer in Jersey turned up soil containing gold, and gold-oro has been found in Anglesey. For some time a mine was worked in the. Forest of Dean; while in quite recent years goldbearing on? was discovered at Twym I’arllwm, in Wales. It is want of capital which has prevented these mines being further developed . Another Scotch find was made in Argyllshire, where gold-bearing quartz, yielding 2Joz to soz. of gold to the ton, was discovered. And m at least two place* in Ireland * ore and sand, containing gold, has been found. _ _ln ancient days the people of Wicklow mined gold in the mountains.