IN VOLCANOES & DOWN MINES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1930, Page 3

IN VOLCANOES & DOWN MINES

PROFESSOR SKEATS’ TOUR

Professor G. W. Skeats,. geologist, of Melbourne University, returned recently from a tour, not only round the woriu, but under it.

In Sicily he ihounted the crest of Alount Etna, still warm, after its disastrous eruption in November.

In Italy lie climbed Alt. Vesuvius and saw Stronihil belching flame. In Java he saw the most of the 30 i aicaimes active there.

In Mysore, India, lie ascended the world’s deepest gold mine, over 7003 feet deep, where white supervisors and native labour have helped to produce £50,000,000 worth of gold at a temperature of 112 degrees.

HIGHLAND MYSTERY.

In Wales he found a ’gold mine going strong, and in Scotland geological experts still arguing about the origin of the hard rocks ,ol which the Highlands are composed. Other investigations made by Professor Seats were directed f o the tin mines of Malay, where ev'eryho.ly was depressed on account of the low ] i ice of tin ruling, and the coal mines in India, where the seams wyre thick ,but the quality of coal below the standard of our best. He did not worry about oil fields, as the World’s production was much in excess of the world’s demand.