Guadalcanal Gold

Good Prospects for Large Scale Operations in Solomons

ACCORDING to Mr. L. J. Davis, an Australian mining expert, who re turned by the Malaita early in September, a rich goldfield, equal to that of the New Guinea and Papua fields might be expected in the Solomon Islands, where preliminary prospecting had been completed.

Following the operations of Pioneer Ex pedition N.L., which carried out prelimin ary research and survey, it is intended to win gold from the area as soon as local ordinances are framed to permit it.

Mr. Davis explained that the field on Guadalcanal Island, in the Solomons Group, had been proved to contain paying quan tities of alluvial and reef gold, but it re quired capital. It was not a poor man’s show, and must be mined on a sufficiently large scale to be successful.