HE RICHEST GOLD MINE IN THE WORLD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 960, 4 June 1883, Page 4

HE RICHEST GOLD MINE IN THE WORLD.

The property in the Trans^4’ ' irtuch it was reported*some timefago, on good authority* that. enormous quantities of gold-r-reachihgin lcertaiii> cases as much as i,ooo ounces to the ton—where likely to be taken, has been acquired by an English company, ■ ' wfcoseengineer,and geologist, sent put eWibinS'tfte *prospects 'of the undertaking, have sent Home some, satisfactory reports on the subject. “Two diggers,” says one of them, “ employing seven Kaffirs, had just cleared up far the week seventy-three ounces of gold, and their means of working rrmst inefficient It is by far the richest place 1 have ever seen, and the amount it will produce is sompthAng .fabulous.? One large, .d^cqyqred. running/through . the property, and tfSSEtnS

A series of trenches cut through it at - the-surface, prove the width' to-be from ejgbteep; feet., . Tb& reef i? composed of quartz, strongly charged ssilh. iron, some of which having been washed, has fajr. prospects of gold, sufficient} as estimated, to produce from ttSpsttdqgesJo three ounces to opinion. 1 1 r ~nl ij r•t hi n th~ wh~h of. the smafffif veins being worked. Some reefs; which have been already partially worked, give, according to the diggers, -zoo ounces to the ton. This indeed, from the quartz which they pick out in iHSf sluicing. “Besides the quartz, there is a large quantity of alluvial toil, some of which is reported to contain the extraordinary quantity of an ounce and a half to the cubic yard. If

these prospects are' realised in practical %orkiflg, thi Lyfldenbtirg gbldfields may claim to take rank among the > richest in the world, even if the exceptional return of 1,000 ounces Jo should, in full wqifehgPbe ll rfeducedin practice to the 200 ounces which pioneer diggers have realised,- * or* even to of that proportion. Some of the alluvial washings on the “ Lisbon ” property. f beep , proved to yield the unprecedented quantity of 1,900 ounces of gold to the ton. tqj thft .cartiftcate of pf Messrs Johnson, Mat they and C 0..,, iflie well-known assayers, the average JJSP ’/tfeKy-feigiit^^ainjills, : tdketii under the supervision of the late Gold* Gommississioner \jfop vthe'j Transvaal under the British Government, is 48 i/ 2 ounces of gold and 3.8 ounces' af silver to the ton of ore. The refuse, till "recently throwna,fay |?y the ipiners <jp the . spot, contains sufficient gold to pay a handsome profit on the working of .THe. stuff.-— Colonies and India.'' ' J ’ ■'