GOLD FROM SEA SAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 146, 11 June 1908, Page 3

GOLD FROM SEA SAND.

A DESCENT UPON THE WESf COAST.

A syndicate composed of and Taranaki speculators is abo't In put to n test 3 special Edison m machine for working the black sand beaches on the West Coast of thi Yn'th Island for tlic recovery of gold. tions will be loinninicnl o'l oi l f ];-

tezuina bca.--h, a few miles noif . hi I'okitika. The syndicate has H'cur."! the rights for working spvera' Veaci.es fori

the West Coast for the rsMnrv ui line gold.

It is understood that t!m Edison machine iias been operated ,i';'i ire,it success in the recovery of gold from !h^;i|c t and rivers in America. Th_> synl'i-.it" ii an influential one. and the 'ucnibcis ire undeterred by previous fai'i'-s si.eli ar the ordinary suction and Inickn. d'-dp's which were unable to con .-n I (villi the hardened substrata where th? g(;U ;s located. The Edi*on mac'i* i.» it ;iaia .es the black from the grey sa id but il las vet to be proved whether it is fill in saving the fine jjold, and it.-. «Jliciency in lifting and disposing tailings has to be tested. Mr. ,J. K'artei|. .u.t American expert, is at present on tile West Coast preparing for a trial of the machine.

It is understood that a second syndicate will shortly lie formed in Welling, ton to acquire a machine for Jidilng' and saving beach gold, which has been planned lie a local inventor, who liar, hail many years' experience on the West Coast.—Wellington Times.