GOLD MINES IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 47, 20 March 1909, Page 3

GOLD MINES IN BRITAIN

I Tin; recent discovery of gold in, Anglesey is by 11 u means the first oc-' currcuce uf tin; .kind iu ithc UiliL.-.i, Kingdom. Indeed, th<! previous metal has bcwi tuunii, from time Id 'liuiu, pretty well all over the country. Thus, in 1817 a Coiuisli miner «ii :i canned « chunk iic big us a. hen's egg, ill the C'lveuuap district', At Colspic, hi ISO'S, u laborer engaged in repairing Uiu village street dug 141 a. nugget of nearly |)ini' gold neighing two ounces; 'while, Iruiii'jJuiiniliiii ■Clou, in tlie same district ol hcothind, gold to the value of many t : ,»iii-iuiiis ul pounds has been obtained liy washing. hi 181K) ft mine near Dolgclly produced u.s much a,s .)3WJ ounces, from the placer goldmines of the WiVklow niounkiius Clo.illKl .worth was taken in a single year, the metal lieing so pure that the Dublin liauks tnscd to put .sovereigns in the 'opposite scale to it, ami «ive weight for WKijflrt'. At' Helmsdale, iSiilhcrlundsliivc, in January, lSlillj a dWcovery of gold by a returned Australian minor drew crowds of adventurers. .Most of ilium, 'however, returned disappointed, for, 'ilthougli the gold wa-s there right enough, it wiia so finely 11= well as so widely disseminated I Ida I it hardly puid for the working'. Cold huts also .ueen found in several places in Cumberland, and to 11 lesser degree in Wcsi.inorc'liuid. Hut the most, famous, and, indeed, 'the only real permanent iirilisli goldmines, are those okvncd liv ..Mr. I'ritchard .Morgan, in '.Merionethshire. 'These were first systematically worked in 1887, mid liavu yielded an appreciable iiuanti'ly of the, precious metal annually ever since, except wlieu, fur a short period, lliey were, closed down owing to a dispute with the Crown us to royalties.