LUCKY STRIKE.
<& GOLD MIXERS PROMISING- LEAD UNCOVERED GREAT POTENTIALITIES. DUNEDTN, October 14. What promises to be a distinctly in. teresting discovery of gold-beannt; lead has been made iu the Blackstoue Hill district. Central Otago, .by two miners working under the ' Unemployment Hoard's scheme
In the course of sluicing- operations, they have, come upon a quartz drift seam carrying within it a. narrow lead which i s yielding coarse rough gold. Mixed with this are large pieces, some, of which are too big to enter tho mouth ot an aspirin bottle.
Although only about six ounces of gold have been recovered from this lead which has just been discovered tho •significance of tho find lies in its poten tial.tios a s it is known that this seam of quartz drift extends for main- miles through the district,
In the near vicinity is a small patch V , '?"V l V iUTO in nrea from which local traduion has it th at 4000 ounces weiv taken by the first miners.
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Western Star, 15 October 1935, Page 2
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