LAMONT'S GOLD SAVING PROCESS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1211, 15 May 1885, Page 4

LAMONT'S GOLD SAVING PROCESS.

At Auckland the other d y, several gentlemen interested in mining matters met Mr Gordon, Government Inspector of Goldfields, who has just returned from Australia, after having inspected all the goldfields there. Mr Gordon has made a most careful study of the water jacket furnaces now coming into such general use in the Australian colonies, and he seemed very well satisfied with the results he saw. He said there was no doubt that the Lamont furnace saved fully 95 per cent, of gold as against the bank assay. He also showed a plan of the furnace, and thoroughly explained the whole operation. The furnaces are, of course, kept going continually, and a complete plant, including buildings and all appliances capable of reducing sixty tons of ore per day, could be erected for smelting under LSOOO, the furnace it self not costing more than 1700 or LBOO. As Mr Lamont has promised to return to Auckland in three weeks with a view to float a company to erect and work the furnaces, it is most earnestly to be hoped that the Thames goldfield may before many months has passed have one or more of these furnaces in full blast, and, judging by the practical results of those now in operation in Australia, this process should do much to relieve the gold mining industry, and will probably convert pioperty that is now valueless into dividend paying mines This has been the result at Sunny Corner, and there seems no reason why the same results may not be obtained here, for these furnaces seem to have long passed from the experimental phase, and are now the means of producing fat dividends. The Sunny Corner is a ease in point. Before Lamont’s furnace was erected this property was absolutely unsaleably ; now the shares are quoted in last Sydney lists at L 3 5s to L 3 15s, business done, and, we believe, only 12s fid paid up. It is under consideration to send a parcel of about +en tons of Cambria stone to Sydney, samples having previously been tested, with the object of putting the new process to a practical trial, before the public are asked to embark in the Company necessary for the introduction of the process into New Zealand.— Star.