ENORMOUS YIELD OF GOLD AT LITTLE RIVER.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 89, 23 October 1869, Page 5

ENORMOUS YIELD OF GOLD AT LITTLE RIVER.

(From, the " Sydney Empire.")

Intelligence reached Braidwood of a most extraordinary rich find of £old in the Homeward Bound Claim, on the Musquito Reef, Little River. The parties working on the claim, on coming upon it, were quite beside themselves with excitement, as well they might be. In not more than a third of a three bushel bagful of the stone which was raised, it was estimated by some that there were thirty pounds weight of gold, and by some persons it was thought that there were nearer forty pounds weight. For one piece of stone alone £80 was offered, but this the claimholders were not inclined to accept, seeing that they had sold a piece a few hours previously for £7 10s., which, on being crushed, had yielded 10 ounces of gold. They crushed the stone, which weighed about 78lbs , iv a mortar, and having done all they could in this rude way to separate the gold from the stone, they brought it into the Oriental Bank on Monday, when the residue was found to weigh 3330z5. 7dwts. Of this between 250 and 300 ounces is estimated to bo gold, I eing about onethird of the weight of stone in which ifc was found* which was 900 ounces. There ia no telling, however, tlie quantity of rich stone there is left in the claim: The shaft is only thirty-five feet deep, and has only been opened some five or six weeks. The reef ia two feet wide, and the stone is not of that crumbly mixed nature which has been found the richest at the Little , River, and confined to narrow veins of *a few inches. It is a hard grey pure quartz, with which the precious metal is so equally intermixed as to make the stone appear to be scarcely distinguishable from the gold itself. Here and there, when it was first taken out, could be seen lumps of pure gold with portions of pure quartz flinging to if, but generally the gold was equally diffused through the stone. Persons who have been down the shaft; inform us that the stone that is left is dazzling to the eyes, and the gold can be seen hanging from it like icicles. There are six persons in the claim, one or two of whom live in Aralnen, and the others have been residents of other parts of the district. Previous to coining on the rich stone they (the working shareholders) were very low in funds, and a week or* two since a share was given up in tho claim. The gold was sent down to Sydney by the Government escort, which left Braidwood this morning, and we believe it is likely to be exhibited in Sydney prior to being sent "to the Mint. There have been very rich parcels of stone found lately at Grympie and the Thames, and also at the Bat'iurst side, but this proportion of one-third gold to 75"lbs weight of stone has seldom been eclipsed, and it proves that while the general bulk of the stone, taken as it comes from the claims which have had a crushing on the Little River, shows an average of 1 to 2ozs. to the ton, there are also as rich patches as in other places. The Little River is evidently destined to become a great reefing district, as* the reefs extend all the way to Narriga and Bungonia.

Are the days of " big nuggets " about to return ? It is said that the Leviathan Gold Mining Company, near Ballarat, have unearthed a nugget weighing 41b. 907. The son of Mr. Tregonning, of the Black Bull Hotel, Creswick, while on his way to school on the morning of the 23rd September, picked up in the middle of the road near the Wesleyan school a nugget weighing rather more than 4oz. lldwt., and which was sold for £18 6s. A telegram from Sandhurst contains the information that a 30oz. nugget was found on 23rd ult., at the head of the Sheepwash Creek by a "hatter." At the Berlin goldfields a lOOoz. nugget has been found ; and at Opossum Gully a miner had the good fortune to come across a 221 b. piece.

The extraordinary richness of the Lon» Drive claim is almost proverbial, and we are pleased to see that in place of getting poorer it is rather increasing ill richness as it is followed down. The specimen crushing which was finished at the Kuranui Co.'s machine lately has given a result unprecedented in the annals of quartz mining, haviug yielded 1,4330z5. of retorted gold, from a parcel of 3501b5. of stone;- or a fraction over 4ozs. 2dwts. and 4grs. to the pound weight. The gold was yesterday deposited in "the Bank of New Zealand, Grahamstown, for melting purposes. It is not likely to lose much in the process; as extreme care was taken to make the parcel as clean as possible. We are informed by Mr. Mulr that a sample of the stone which has given this tremendous yield is reserved for exhibition— " Thames Advertiser." ,

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