QUARTZ REEFING IN THE WEST INDIES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1157, 13 April 1872, Page 4

QUARTZ REEFING IN THE WEST INDIES.

Some months ago a small island in the Carribbean Sea, known as the Bimita, and about 800 miles south of Trinidad, while being explored under the direction of Agassiz, was found to contain gold. The rock is quartzose, and quietly a few individuals obtained possession of the island, and those individuals— all Americans — will not dispose of any interest, although recently several offers from English capitalists in London were received — information having reached them through the Custom House, it is supposed, although every arrangement had been made to keep the matter as quiet as possible. The gold 13 free and easily amalgamated, and in purity in the veins of the quartz. Forty veins have been discovered on the island, wild five are now being worked, and the ore is being received from ships at the Centreville works, in Greenville, in Hudson county. The works are running night and day. The ore is now, with perfect machinery, yielding 60dol per ton, and they are only getting one-third of the gold, but the tailings are being saved with the view of running them through the improved machine being contracted for. All the gold ore seen by our reporter, who tested the specimens first as dumped out on the wharf, will yield 180dols per ton. This great discovery is believed to be likely to build up a very important enterprise in the Hudson county. The ore is as rich as the richest ores of California and Venezuela.