The Thames Gold Fields.—The yield of gold from the Thames during the month of March, is the highest ever produced, by the field during any similar period, being 45,200 ounces 11 pennyweights 3 grains. This quantity of gold has been taken from 8,790 tons 13 hundredweight 9 pounds quartz, showing an average on the whole quantity crushed during the month of March, of .5 oza 2 penny weights 20 grains to the ton. The yield of gold for February was 30,749 ounces; therefore during March there has been an increase of 14,450 ounces.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 13, 22 April 1871, Page 16
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