The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1891.
Equal ami I'Mu-t v-'jtKV.: tu -»il men, 01 whatr, statu or pwsjarion. relitfiuus or political.
Whilst the settlement of utir waste: lands i;j steadily allairs in eoiiiitiei.ii.ni with our mining industry sire uiiijui:.-Uotmlily assuming .1. much 1 j ri,Lrhll• r lin• Most cii- ■ olU'a<;ing report's are regularly to 'illld li'Olli '■ HOUS Darts of tilt! '.'oromandel ' 'inuii c - : -il,t and iVuui i'lihi; n.lii, -alir'li njueluiiively ihitt iii the northern portion the colony V, i; ili'.vrich and f...ten r> ■; gold and silver liclds ; the v,Hi lling (if which will not only hi; of material Ifi'iietit in those immediate! v engaged, hut also of yreat value to the colony at large.. The mosl encouraging aspect of j tlin mining quest ton is the. successful uuumer in which, at last, we are able to deal with the refractory ores. This, as our readers sire awn re, has been the .great stumblinghlock. The precious metals were there -- assays without number proved that: but to discover any process by which they could, at reaI unliable cost, be- extracted has been tli i diliiculty. "When recently the. wealthy To Aroha Company. after I so >ndisiu" largo re.mis in elaborate ! machinery, threw up the sponge, it certainly did appear a hopeless case, and gold mining earne to he looked upon by many as a somewhat", fruitless pursuit. However, it was the darkest hour before the dawn. The Oassel process of gold-saving, which Ins been introduced into New Zealand by Mr Thomas Melville, and which, after encountering many difficulties, lias been tried nud satisfactorily proved as coiupetett to deal with our refractory ores, a revolution in minim; matters is promised. Numerous reefs of immense size known to exist in the different gold fields— worthless under any of the old processes, not yielding enough to pay for treatment — will, it is now eontidcntly believed, be profitably worked and tor an indefinite number ot years. The Oassel process has not by any means been the first for which success was predicted, and we havo become soniev'. li.it chary in believing in any new procios—-at !e i until il had withstood the te.il, not only o!' small puce's, but of a lengthened trial. This tli" (J issel process has done, as tiii' following results from the treatin at ' a a large lot. of ore at Kar.-iugih will, we. lielieve, con- \ i:ice tlv uio.-r, sceptical thai; at last the open sesame to tie- vast wealth which lies locked up in -air refracLoiy oreu has been t'.-uiid. l M;Lc:mUt of ~'i-> ' , ot (Ji'OU'U Hi.ut'.i ovo tt'rt-"- »: I Hi by I 1 • i Mivcr 'V,:'. i- ii7c.vt. >!it.iiiicd by I -II'". :»10 li°(M\viv] riil'i snl.l to Bill!: 1 I'-H I'. iT"iil ■icre. r.T i-Pci)vrry !I0>.~(U \ aiitt --Tin' alinve or.: wni< "round ; I lii'oii'.'li i i' l ' tni?."-!. i 4 ot 1,0, eonso- . I • 1 .-!l!'v a 1:11 V pei'i'i I i."> [>(•!• Cent ) ill.' i::.' 1" L -1 11 . i -.! t'l p-l'.-I a I'll nil-sll. Mr.fl the n'indiiu; t'Vii ,v< lYqeiivd by the l'rncePS a much bitter r.onlt would li-a-c hpcn obtained. 11'. tic.:- L'lilliuu v.ii'.i-i 1 ' in mil at
(.[ v. Z.'.lnri'l, I'.i/r'M, L'Ui.'i.i, niM i.. Cii !-i (M i".i ton. IVr I'll. i 1: 1,'.. ,i * h. In: kll ■' it MI nt L'l U U i; || in.": lift', lvo .% ivl l I- > •• [•',,r,v.' Ily n siinil ir ore ticni -d liy I'"t ferv t'('.l'n.i nt yuMcl bullion tu t h,vain.; of 'J- I-or toil. Tliix 1 hrtvu hei|in;iit!y ln<l confirmed l.y actual olniTva;ii!ll 1 cm inmii 'iii'.lv i'i-Kt the n ,. t :t.-i- in tinni! iici|».ti!ii<",l with the li id. 1 prop .H'. tlicr-forc tn tliaw ;i i on ji n i-.nl) i.etween th : (Jus-sul t.i.•■■it.i.,-nr iiml tin: o;d ln'.Viy nicihnil. <»v v.ilu£7 |-jr ten liv assay. ' |, M j i.l I :e..tun.lit. IH t lon ... K'l ' A--1.1. 'I IiI.AVII-.ST. •_»<).» toiSK, value CI pet' ton by iwstiv. iii cnvrir 1 : "il to li.inU.. ... -Vl.tio.. 1... „im of I•••! proc . ■ j:i< li I pi i' >:i ;|0 lIi■ 1111;? •• •, :!rj K'l'l ii 1 pel l 'li ; "JiK p'.'i- ton . i'Oii a,« 72 I tsi-.t Ml lai.iur "t tre.itimiiit on tun- <»ro ... ... tw'Jj i The .'il> >\*c need no comment. Ti.-y npL'llv I tllL'lHStilvOS. In further reference to the process, llii'iv- in a Lirim liuinour ill tho report which comes from Wellington that the Government analyst (Mr Skey) I)ticl represented to the Government that the powerful agent in tii'! ('asicl process—cyanide of pot.i - iutn luid been used, for the i.i,l, twenty years, in gold-saving jiiiicesMcw, so that any patent rights tor that process were irregular. To ninny this will appear us an unworthv attempt to take away the reward for what may turn out to be, ;,.j fir as minim; is concerned, the moot valuable disco very that has been made for many years, more particularly to tliia part of the colony. ____________
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2919, 31 March 1891, Page 2
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