PROSPECTING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 425, 9 January 1933, Page 5

PROSPECTING

(Press Assn.—

COROMANDEL WJEALTH UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD * TAKES OPTJMISTIC ' VIEW * MONEY WELL SPENT

-By Telegraph— Copyright)

Auckland, Sunday. (Th]e Unemployment Board is ' at present assisting some 2000 ' men, in gold mining and prospectihg. It is hoped, that hy the end of the summer to double that number. The Thames and Coromandel area will' be included in an extensive eafri-paign'-that is being planned. In hiaking thjs statement, Mr. J. S.* Jessep, deputy chairman of the Unemployment Board, stated the ohject "of his special visit to Waihi and Thames was to consult with the mining ex'ecutive and the unemployment 'qrgalhisation with a view to pushing forward a much more extensive miniftg effort over the Coromandel rdnge. ^ Access Needed " * ' The board was fully awaf e that the work of prospecting in bush couhi try was much more difficult 'than searching for alluvial gold. ' The outstanding succesg " that had been made in assisting the unemployed to mine alluvial areas, especially in Otago, gave warrant for the utmost possible effort to be made in ' the quartz country. Two hundred or 300 prospectoi's in this region had gained encouraging results. • ■ Access Needed The board was definitely of th'e opinion that a direct camp'aign to give, at least paelc horse access to promising areas there Would he of great I-elp in making discoveries and cr'e'ating employment for a long-period. "I am not a mining autjiority;'.'' said - - r . Jessep, "but i have heen gathering* from experts information whieh convin.ces me that the Coromandel Range has never been explored by "killed prospectors, and there exists possibilities of winning as much gold as ever came out of it. "I am satisfied that many areas of the ranges warrant much more extensive investigation than' they have ever reeeived, and the Unemployme'nt Board will supply the necessary 'funds to that end." ' ' " "Wherever the geologists of the Mines Department recommen'd cutting access tracks, the board will provide the funds for the work. " "In Otago we have discovered good deposits one and *a-h'alf miles fi-dm'a !.own established 50 or 60 years'.- 'In such bush country as in Coromandel; •t is not enough that a prospeCtor cr two should go in with their food 011 their backs for a few days. It is essential that camps should be established and be made the hasis ' of operations. -r To enable this to be done, pack liorse transport, at least, i's essential, and the traeks we have in mind 'will render that possible. One g'ood fipd would justify that expenditure. More Employment "The movement," continue'd Mr. Tessep, "will mean the employment of more qualified miners and supervisors. It is the board's poliey that the men should Work under skiljed guidance. More mining engineers Will be required in yarious parts of the Dominion. "The board is prepared to consider applications from gold mining concerns to subsidise searches. One concern would have closed down but for :his assistance. In consequence iop men are working to-day. Every encouragement will be given to private enterprise, but the board will see t'hat ■ assistance is not given to coricerns whose aim is to develop wild cat flotations. There will be no eXplojtation of the public through relief subsidies.'.'