HIDDEN WEALTH
PROSPECTING FOR OIL AND MINERALS BY ELECTRICITY COSTLY BORING METHODS REPLACED INVESTORS ’ SAVED FROM “WILD CAT” SCHEMES (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 24. The Daily News says that another chapter in the romance of man s search for the world’s hidden mineral, wealth is opened by recent develop-, ments of the method of seeing underground by electricity. Research tests are being made in Persia-with a view to extending the application of a new process to prospecting for oil and minerals. It is expected to save millions of pounds, replacing costly boring methods and at the same time safeguarding the investors against “wild-cat” schemes. . The discovery is the outcome of investigations made by an Austrian engineer. During war time, while _ engaged in listening-in to conversations by means of wireless earth telephones ho noted the different conductivity of tho various rocks and minerals. The latest Gorman apparatus' includes a portable alternating dynjamo. Iron rods driven into the. earth roughly a mile apart serve as electrodes for the transmission of current earthwards. The receiving gear consists of a frame and aerial connected with an amplifier and; earphones'.. The listener, by moving tho aerial, is- enabled to draw a diagram indicating the deflections of earth currents, from which the exact position and depth of any mineral deposit, water or oil can he ascertained. —Sun.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10315, 26 January 1927, Page 5
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