Pat Costello's New Fiji Gold
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Mine
THERE is an interesting story behind this recent photograph of Mr. Pat Costello, of Suva, Fiji, standing re solutely behind three ingots of gold, which weigh 101 oz., and which there fore are worth over £l,OOO. They were recovered by amalgamation, with a 5tons mill, in 24 days, on Mr. Costello’s famous 30-acres block, on the Tavua goldfield, Fiji.
In the middle thirties, Australian in vestors went mad over the new gold field in Fiji, discovered by William
Borthwick and Pat Costello, and the country was pegged out for miles around. The only areas which survived testing and development, however, were the areas now being worked by the Em peror and Loloma mines (which, in 1940, produced gold worth £1,024,000), and Mr.
Costello’s 30-acre block. These proper ties occupy a kind of cone, in the centre of the wide, saucer-like depression which comprises the Tavua field.
Mr. Costello’s 30-acre block, which is close to the Emperor, is now called Costello’s Mines, Ltd., and it should be a money-maker. Tailings are stacked, awaiting the completion of a new mill, now in course of erection.