Papuan Gold

Some Promising Shows

Result Of Misima

Crushings

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, Sept. 8.

GOLD mining has not provided any sensations during the month.

Misima reports having treated 10,979 tons of ore for a gold recovery of 4,704 ounces, and 761 ounces of silver.

Values work out to £1/6/7 per ton of ore treated, and profit and loss ac count shows a credit balance of £3,629 nett.

The Federation Mine, Woodlark Is land, is going ahead. The four mem bers of the syndicate, all local men, have put in a strenuous year re-tim bering the old workings, removing vast quantities of mullock and renovating tram lines, and have built dams, houses and battery sheds. It is gratifying to learn that they are now on good gold and that prospects are bright.

A new discovery, as yet of unknown value, is reported from the Waria River by two miners from the Man dated Territory, who wandered across the Papuan border.

Mr. Mahony’s Prospecting Syndicate has returned unsuccessful, though op timistic, from the Tiveri River, and is trying to raise further capital for a second venture at the head waters of the same river.

Messrs. Reid and J. Miller, well known in Papua, have returned to the Territory and are going out shortly on a prospecting trip to a locality un named. They have the financial sup port of a New Zealand company.

Mr. Dunstan, formerly geologist for the Queensland Government, is ex pected to return within the week from the Tauri goldfield, with his report on the district and its possibilities.

Mr. H. Garbutt, together with a police escort and patrol officer, Mr.

Speedie, accompanied Mr. Dunstan to the claims and different findings on the Tauri and Tiveri rivers.