THE ORIGIN OF GOLD.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2380, 11 October 1887, Page 2

THE ORIGIN OF GOLD.

TUK late gold finds in Australia (Mount Morgan) and New Zealand, opposed as they are to the general experience of miners, indicates, 1 think, a condition of ignorance on the part of those usually considered well up in the science. The find at Mount Morgan appears to bear out a theory I have held for several years —viz., that gold can be found in other than the metallic fonn.'As a jeweller, I can take a sovereign and convert it into a liquid or a salt or an oxide. Again I can firing the gold back from these forms to the metalic once more. The question is, where in Nature was the gold before it assumed the metallic form ? I cannot help chinking it existed (and continues so to exist) in one of the above-mentioned forms, and that heat was the reducing agent from these to that in which it is usually found. Hut to the more practical, and in view of the general ignorance on where to look for gold, and how to treat suspected material, 1 would suggest that persons acquainted with mining bo. invited to write to Thu Waikato Turns, describing the various methods adopted, for the benefit of the general public, whom lam confident know little or nothing of the matter, and scores of settlers may, for aught we know, be daily working over buried riches on their farms in happy ignorance of that which, if discovered, would benefit themselves, their neighbours, and the colony. The information thus made public could eventually be gathered into bonk form and further published. The substance of those remarks I communicated some two or three years ago in a letter to one of the Auckland papers, lint they were then so well-to-do that they could afford to ignore both the gold and the writer, for the letter was never acknowledged.—(Contributed).