The Jackson's Head Gold Reef
About a couple of tons of stone from the goldmine in the New Zealand Antimony Company's mine, Endeavour Inlet, was (says the New Zealand Times) delivered at Wellington on Tuesday by the steamer Waverley, for shipment to England, to be treated. A parcel of picked stone was subsequently exhibited in the window of Mr Willeston's tobacconist shop, and attracted much and admired attention. It is what a practical miner would term a good sample of stone of exceptional richness, the gold coarse and studding the quarts in bunches. At first sight it might naturally be concluded . that the stamper-boxts would retain the most of such gold, and also that the quartz would crush easily and yield its treasure readily, as there are not the slighest appearance of a superfluity of base metal in the stone. The latter is the reverse of flinty, and is just the kind of stuff an expert miner likes to work amongst. That gold from such vein stuff should be difficult to save seems incomprehensible. The Company has evidently a first-claBS thing in hand if the lode is equal to the samples recently taken from it.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 147, 12 July 1888, Page 3
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195The Jackson's Head Gold Reef Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 147, 12 July 1888, Page 3
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