Empire's Gold Production.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1922, Page 4

Empire's Gold Production.

j The value of*'th’e output, of gold in j the Transvaal, Union of South Africa, | during last- .Sear- amounted to £-12,529,509, a decrease of over! £2,000,01)0 when compared with the j output of 1920, which was valued at £44,719/143. 'Hie expiirt of raw gold from the Union ot South Africa, during; 1921 amounted to 8,862;748 ounces, valued at, £3,4,453,536, " compared _ jvitli 0;3fi4,087v ounces' .valued at £35,547,‘079 in'the previous year,’' Exports of raw gold from Southern Rhodesia in 1921 were 591,554 ounces, valued at £2,293,596, as against 579,923 ounces; valued at £2,428,219, in 1920. The total yield of gold last year was 585,525 fine ounces, valued at £3,217,275, compared with 552,498 film ounces, valued at £3,056,519 in

1920. „ , The yield of gold in New South Wales ‘ for the year to 48(9p7 fine ounces, valued "at £207,746,-i a clScren.se of 1(5,932 fine ounces and £71,920 in value as compared with ; 1019. Last year’s production was 51,173 fine ounces’. j The total gold production in Canada during 1021 lias bebn estimated _at 875,088 fine ounces, worth' $18,089J)74,; compared, with 750,007 fine dunces. , valued at $15,8U;098, in 1929. Ontario is the principal gold-producing province of the Dominion, its output ; constituting more than 75 per cent of the entire Canadian production last year. „ . . . ! The- production of gold m lvntisi Guiana during 1920 amounted to 12,092.; ounces- 1 from, the mines. and 0,238 ounces as a result of dredging operations. Hath returns were below

the average. . I The quantity of gold produced m Ashanti during 1920 was ' 7 0,/10'' fine ounces; valued at £309,000, as compared with 100,000 fine ounces, valued at. £420,000,. in the preceding year. The vahm of geld and gold dust exnortod from tho Gold' Const during 1921 amounted to £.855,097'. In Western, Australia, the amount of gold produced in 1920 wa« 617,342 line ounces, valued at: £2,62-1,427, as against 731,066 fine ounces,'valued at £3,118,113, in 1919. From New Zealand, gold to the vain - cf £612,168 was exported last year, as against £833,748 worth in 1920. T|:c production of gold in India daring 1920 amounted to 499,039 ounces, valued at £2,782,915, compared with 507,261 ouiiics, valued,at-' £2;255,943, in 1919.

Four gold mini's in the 'lnti (listriel of the Fioohittumland' Protectorate nro- ' ducod; 4«7»8' ounces of sold and ; 479 .ounces of silver in If2o, the value obtained for the metal in riouth Attica being £20,176: The output of gold in Nigeria, during 1920 was only 724 ounces, all ot which came from alluvial river wash-

IllgS. In fh.e I'V.dcra’cd Millay Suites, 12,023 i ounces, of wore'mined by tli<> Haul) Mining Company din-ini' 1920, while from alluvial native workings about SOI) ounces were obtained. In 1911)' Hie total production of gold was 1(5,402 ounces. Gold has been found in Nimiaqualand ill association with copper in workable quantities. Other minerals have aha been discovered. and prospecting conditions arc reported to be very favourable.