Gold in Soudan

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 150, 4 June 1885, Page 3

Gold in Soudan

The special correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, writing .from Handour on 21st. April, says :-r-" The Australian contingent had scarcely found themselvei among the rooks and gullies of the hilly lands around Suaktm when their instincts told, them the meaning of splendid quartz tfeins which were 1 found among the recks. On close examination the quartz proved exceedingly promising, and some fine' reefs hare been distinguished, but the test indication is the precious metal itself/ and several of the Australians hare picked ''oat specimens with gold shewing freely. I hare also seen a beautiful piece of copper «,re, and one of our infantry officers, told me the other day he had found twjoos of silver. Pieces of likely quartz are found all over the rocky country, and there is a strong temptation to throw orer campaigning altogether to follow up the indications which our British comrades seem to have no su.ivlcion of. I do not anticipate that payable gold will be found in the lerel country, although geld dust may be scattered orer the wide-spread sands of tV.e khors. It is in the mountains that the best prospects «ra to be obtained. , There is a Sne field. here for Australians. They are trained to a similar climate, and their peculiar energies would find ample scope in : the trade and ventures of the Soudan. A great deal depends on the railway, but with or without it mining would eventually civilise the conntry."