RICH PARCEL OF GOLD

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21417, 8 March 1935, Page 12

RICH PARCEL OF GOLD

—♦ — REPORTED ARRIVAL IN GREYMOUTH ECHO OF FORMER FIND AT MOONLIGHT ;SPJSCIAX. TO THE PKESS.I GREYMOUTH, March 7. It is reported that Messrs B. Fiddes and B. Meikle, who discovered a very rich quartz leader in the Moonlight district just before Christmas, have brought into Greymouth a further parcel of 240 ounces of gold. For a fortnight's work just before Christmas the claim yielded 70 ounces. At the time the men were on the unemployment subsidy, but their succe-s made them forfeit the subsidy, then there have been no ofnciai re ports of their progress, but as tnej have been working constantly, n ireasonable to assume that the nc" leader has continued. There are four men in the party-B. Fiddes and Ben. James, and John Meikle. To extia-i the gold from the quartz the(men use the primitive method of d° u > mg ' which is made easier as the goia of coarse nature. . d The two first-mentioned men iu been prospecting at Moonlight ta more than 12 months without succe-* until December. There are severs other parties of subsidised mine working in the Moonlight disti ct, bui so far they have met with little --"- The district has been well know" since the early days for fabulously rich quartz leaders; but, througn in years efforts to locate the main Joa.v of ore have failed. . Individual prospectors, as in tne *» sent case, have made ricn strikes, di they have always filtered out alter comparatively short penoc ol wo.Fiddes' claim, of 200 acres, is .n » almost inaccessible gully of the r*v Jroa ranges, not many mile* i»Blackball, where the men bc.cn a .