Gold Mines Of Papua
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Another Search For Lode
Mr. Thomas Bollinger, Mining
engineer, accompanied by Mrs. Bol linger, and his assistant, Mr. Ron Baker, and Mrs. Baker, are about to leave Sydney for Misima Island, Eastern Papua. The party is carrying a lot of mining gear and equipment, and it is intended to resume exploratory opera tions on behalf of Gold Mines of Papua, Ltd.
It will be remembered that GOM was ? n ambitious project, backed by Pratten Brothers, which took up leases on Misima, behind the very rich Amuna lode (Cuth bert interests) and operated on a big scale. The company collapsed, however, when it was found that it had been working on the wrong lode. It was kept alive until the Jap invasion forced evacu ation, in 1942, by loans from the Pratten interests.
If Mr. Bollinger has any success in his n ew nroject. GOM mav yet establish a profitable goldmine on Misima.