PLATINUM DISCOVERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 150, 21 July 1909, Page 2

PLATINUM DISCOVERY.

OREPUKI AT FEVER HEAT. RUSH TO PEG OFF CLAIMS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Laet X.gliL. Excitement is ut i• ver heat at Or puki, and overdone is talking black sand, platimun and gold. '.rim correspondent of the Southland Times explains that the beginning of the excitement was the discovery by a party of prospectors of a lode carrying platinum in great quantities, so much so that the smelting expert (Mr. Wild';) said that if there was any great quantity there would be a fortune in it, as it is reported- that lie has offered a fig ure for a quarter share at once. The party has applied for a hundred acres prospecting license consequent on this find. Another party was got together, and they found the reef or lode reported on Sunday to contain rich gold. This Tarty applied for a. 130-acre prospecting license and other parties are busy in regard to the platinum, j The Times correspondent was inform cd by a party that they had found a yluee where a dray could be backed up .and lilled with the same substance as in the lode already referred to, with just as large {l show of platinum. hi the words of the smelting expert, Orepnki is inundated with platinum.

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