GREAT MINERAL WEALTH.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19147, 2 November 1927, Page 9

GREAT MINERAL WEALTH.

JJJW guinea goldfields. JUWBJC BEPOET.ztTUIU* *" SYDNEY, November 1. fa aining «rdon of the Now goldfields, as the result cf Sroua visits to many parts of the *?T *• expresses tbo opinion that eral wcalth wm b ° V from tbo fields. •that alluvial miners ba\o He . claims yet- N° ktrdij to"c norJ . attempted, gjdergf oll ®, j go feet wide has been *»/?!& wtcrop for five miles, expressed the belief, rthe warden) did not lden(^.th the O piui o n, that it lift Wftu 000,000 worth of gold. be considered a H* JEfive estimate of the value retf reached the conclusion of ll * pay 20 ounces to the ton, '** raTw of 4:2 -Is an ounce. ibe 11 * =■« easily worked. Creek specimens had been , 70 per cent, gold but they earlier age than the newlynftfi w^cf believed that the . ricberthan Kalgoorlie. v« Guinea was a country of enorJwlth Almost every mineral discovered. Prospectors were SS platinum in addition to gold Taxable minerals, and there Jio many indications that the Ilmtr* was oil-bearing. it. hid been astonished to discover, t«'ifltitiide of 3000 feet, that milrJ?«l acres of wonderful country ft pggged, similar to Northern and SSinQneensland, admirably suitable i chfffp raising. It was land where ZrtVaJe no droughts, flies, wild dogs, 7nirt» of any kind. It was well itiMd, «d bad a dry climate. pScugjing the difficulties of proa4cn tbe warden said the absence of ■ Sjnery made anything but the most Stove methods impossible, fix aeroplanes were at present carryjujmsengere, mails, and gold between •5 jfcKU and the sea, but they were rotable except for comparatively Jotding. (jag company was obtaining a larger of 'plane from England, capable jjfanyjnz a heavier load. The future rf ike fields, to a great extent, deaofed upon transportation by aero-