GOLD MINES IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 53, 27 March 1909, Page 4

GOLD MINES IN BRITAIN

Tire remit discovery oi' «juiil in, in Ity -no means ,thu nisi uicurrenco oi' ilu» kind in die Liutcii, -kingdom, indeed, thv 'previous mcUil lias bwn found, irom time 10 'lime, iiretiy ueil all over the country. I 'l'lllis, in 16-J7 a Cornish miner unearthed a <htuji; a<> big as a hen's in thu U'wiiimay disiru-i. At liolspw, in 1 SUN, u laborer engaged in jvpuiriiig Uie Village .sln-et miy uji a ot ut'ariy (Hire fcnifi uiw.> (.tuiit :,; win!v, in.in i)unx'l/iii (.n'li, in i) lc .-.uu,. ( |j s . tricl »!' (Scoiliiinl, »nhl lo lln- v.ilue ul | m'a'iiy iWn'/anils oi j/ouiids ha., been villained by washing. In ISoy ,ii jnine near JJolyelly produced as nnidi a.- ,");wo ounces. J-roui liie

placer goldmine* of the Wi'ckiovv mouut'iiins .CIO,OOO .worth wa* taken in a single year, the juKul being *o pure ilmt tin* Dublin banks lined 10 put .sovereigns in tin' scale 10 it, aud weigh l 'lor u rigli'l. ' AD llennsdalc, vNitherlamUhire, in January, JSiHI, a di'A-overy ot gold l»)

a returned Australian minor divw crowd* ot adveutureri. Most of them, however, returned disappoint d, for, iilliough the gold wa? lliere enough, it \wls >o finely as w»'il a> mi widely dUsimiuated I hat it hardly paid lor tlu' working. Cold bah also been found in several places iu K'nuiberiand. and to a lesser degree iu Westmoreland. Hut ihe most luuious, and, indeed, ihe only real permanent British goidiuiue*, are those oKviied by .Mr. I'riiehard .Morgan, in .Merionethshire. 'These were first systematically worked iu ISS7, and have yielded an appreciable quantity of tin', precious metal annually ever since, except when, for a sliorl period. they were closed down oiwilig to a dispute with the Crown ms to royalties.