RICH GOLD FINDS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1932, Page 3

RICH GOLD FINDS

5 WEST AUSTRALIAN CLAIM. ! TWO “BRICKS” WORTH £2OOO. f THE “HARD-TO-FIND” MINE. . . A dilapidated car drew fip to the . kerb, in a street in Kalgoorlie, Western' : Australia, on September 12, a liberal ' touting of dust sliowing it had come from somewhere in the far interior. An elderly man climbed out and rummaged among t a pile of sundries in. the back; of the. car. When lie turned to enter an adjacent bank k.e held in . each hand a narrow brick of gold, , about pine inches long, arid worth about £2OOO. When questioned where the gold had , come from the man told the bystanders that it came from the “Hard-to-Find'” Mine. He refused further inforination. DISCOVERY IN VICTORIA. TWENTY-SIX-OUNCE NUGGET. David Warns, who had been working in a icrest near Dunolly, Victoria/, went for some wood on the evening of September 12, taking a- dish'yund pifok with him. On. the southern side ot Gooseberry Hill’ he “ tried two dishes of dirt, and in the second obtained a nugget weighing -26£0z.. It was covered id I clay, but when cleaned was found to be pure gold. In the early days splendid I gold was obtained by washing material obtained on the surface. , £2OO NUGGET UNEARTHED. REWARD OF HARD TOIL. MELBOURNE, September 15. After having proved extremely frigid for 12 months, Lady Luck has tossed a £2OO. .smile to Alf Josliii and Alf Sal- ! mon, two young prospectors on the Waanyarra field, in Victoria. I When they were driving into, the side j of their shaft on Monday they unearthged an “indicator” nugget the size of a, man’s fist, weighing 520 z. 12dwt. j Messrs Joslin , and Salmon have been ! working ori the, field for nearly a year. Mr Salmon hag struck a fragment or j two of gold, but this is the first bit of good, fortune that has come the way of Mr Joslin. I The young inen intend to break up their nugget by dollying and to send the gold to the Mint. They expect to get about' 30oz. of gold after the ironstone has been separated from the riug- , get. , ;. ( j Luck ‘ all’il persistency each had a part in -the find. ' Several months ago, Mr Salmon and another prospector, Jack James, sank the. shaft between .two others, in .which fair-?ized • nuggets had been found. They -' bottomed,; hut , fohnd no. reward for their-work'. ••• • ' The.'shrift lay idle .for many weeks. • flien,' about ’five or six days ago, Mr Salmon, this time with Mr Joslin as his piartriei’, ' went -to work ,in it. They did.not see the colour. of gold until Monday. They saluted tlie find in the traditional manner of miners who have. 1 riiade a strike. Carrying, tlie nugget, tliey j Scrariibled. to the head of the shaft arid' hammered their washing dishes with sticks, until every miner around knew from the rattle of the ! !goldfields telegraph that someone had struck it lucky. , TWO FIELDS OPENING; IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. (Australian Press Association ) • ; . ..SYDNEY, October .2. Tlvere is a gold mining boom in Central Australia. If-lias been re-, sponsible for the forriiaition of sev-, e.ral i mining syndicates, which are feverishly 'preparing a'arial expeditions to the scene (which is located at the Granite and Tanami goldfields, which aire north of Alic(e,‘Springs.

Companies have already boen formed in four States to work the fieias. Two aeroplane parities are. leaving Adelaide next week for the Granite Field. - ■ 1 '