Pohangina Reefs

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 75, 3 December 1885, Page 2

Pohangina Reefs

In order to give the stone obtained from the Pohangina by Messrs Joseph Bray and W. Carthew, a fairj trial, a furnace has been erected on the premises of the E. & C.A. Corporation. On Tuesday afternoon a small quantity of the quartz was melted in an ordinary fire clay crucible by Mr Peter Bartholomew and Mr Macarthur with the result that gold was obtained ia such a quantity as to definitely settle the question of the existence of that metal in the reefs. The means and and appliances used were of such a simple character that we hare no doubt when a trial is made of a few tons through a properly equipped stamper battery, the stuff will turn out not less than aeyen or eight ounces to the ton. The stone has no gold visible to the naked eye, and is altogether what practical miners would describe as " hungry looking.,, But the tests to which it has been submitted, prove clearly enough that the metal runs thrpugh the whole of it in very minute particles. The next thing to be done will be the formation of a company to take up ground and work it, to determine whether the reef is of such an extent as to justify the erection of proper batteries. If such turns out to be the case it will be a glorious thing for Feildiug and surrounding districts.