A LUCKY STRIKE
CLUTHA GOLD DREDGE RETURN OF 660 OUNCES The final return for last week from the Clutha River Gold Dredging Company’s dredge proved a surprise to all concerned when it was found that 660 ounces had been recovered for 123 hours’ working. The company’s returns lately have mostly been in the vicinity of 50 ounces a week.
At the present time, the dredge is undergoing certain alterations to enable it to work the flats of the river valley, and is dredging on tribute for the Molyneux River Dredging Company. It is working on a portion of the river, not far from Alexandra, which has been dredged more than once by other machines, and it is not altogether easy to understand why such a pocket, if pocket it was, had not been picked up before. The water was not deep at the place where the dredge was working and there was no reason to suppose that a rich return might be obtained.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24405, 17 September 1940, Page 6
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163A LUCKY STRIKE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24405, 17 September 1940, Page 6
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