HUGE GOLD REEF.
1 IMPORTANT .DISCOVERY IN CANADA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (li-cc. Juno 26, 0.0 p.m.) London, Juno 25. "The Times's" Toronto correspondent states tbat tho engineers on t)io Canadian Grand Trunk Pacific railway report the discovery of a gold-bearing quartz reof near Stewart, in British Columbia. Tho reef is several miles in extent, and sometimes 2000 feet high. It is in a mountain range containing great porphyry dykes, between which lies the reef. The width of the reef varies from thirty feet to a thousand feet. It is stated that a thousand stamps could bo. worked for a hundred years before the reof would be exhausted. [At tho Waihi Goldmining Company's mino at Waihi, the largest in tho world, there are about 200 stamps.]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 853, 27 June 1910, Page 7
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125HUGE GOLD REEF. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 853, 27 June 1910, Page 7
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