COLD FIND IN CANADA
MAY RUSH . BUG INS - VIRTUAL STAAIPHDF MONTREAL, Aug. 3.—News brought to Montreal to-day of a new discovery of gold deposits at Duparciuet Norquc, close to the vicinity of the 'Golconda mines, has started a second gold rush in Canada within a lew days. Mr. J. B. DeMille, consulting engineer to t!ie Golconda mines, on whose property the “goldl strike” was made, stated that samples of the new goldfield assayed as-high as l4ooz. ol g (, J<l. or about £9BO, per ton. When this leaked out a rush of prospectors began. Reports Irom Duparquot to-dav state there is now a vital stampede among the miners in the region in thoiV eageniess to stake out claims. It is believed that if the new finds come up to first expectations. Duparquot will see the biggest “stake boom for years. The first discovery ol gold was made in the Yellow Knife River region, near the Great Slave Lake, and 10.009 people are reported to be converging on the Yellow Knife camp.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 235, 18 September 1939, Page 3
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170COLD FIND IN CANADA Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 235, 18 September 1939, Page 3
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