GOLD DISCOVERY.
IX TAUMARUNUI DISTRICT.
Taumarunui, Tuesday. The Taumarunui gold prospectors showed the “Press-” specimens of quartz which they claim as highly productive of gold, silver and lead. One prospector had just returned from the School of Mines at Thames, where the stone lias been tested with satisfactory results. An assay proved it good payable rock, including three metals. He stated that the prospectors were giving no information as to the locality ex- > eept that it Was near Taumarunui and easily accessible. Questioned as to how they made the find the prospectors stated that gold, in small quantities, had been found here for thirty years back by Maoris, surveyors and prospector’s. Specimens had been found in the creeks and the prospectors concluded that there must be a reef at hand. They spent weeks at intervals in the bush and on the hills, and made the discovery of a definite reef on May 6th. f
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19220615.2.11
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2441, 15 June 1922, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
154GOLD DISCOVERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2441, 15 June 1922, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in