SLEDGE PARTY BACK
Return to Little America
(Received January 1, 8.55 p.m.)
Little America, December 31.
After 77 days in the field, Mr. Sipple’s sledging party returned yesterday bringing quartz specimens which Mr. Allen Wade, the geologist with the party, believed indicate vast mineral lesourees on the mountain peaks traversing the coast of Marie Byrd Land, according to a preliminary report to Rear-Admiral Byrd. Mr. Wade said he believed that the range technically forms a massive link into the Andean fold Chaim which, dipping beneath the ocean south of Tierra del Fuego, passes at intervals scattered islands, reappears in the Antarctic continent and curves under the Pacific to New Zealand.
Mr. Wade declined to predict the possible extent of the valuable minerals, as most of the specimens were left with the tractor party, which was met 150 miles from the camp. He said, however, that he, found galina, in which he believes may be associated lead, zinc and copper.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 9
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159SLEDGE PARTY BACK Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 9
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