Misima Gold
p. 47 · Read in the full issue
Some Revival of Interest
Asamarai, Sept. 17.
DISCOVERY by Mr. Dick Gladstone, on Misima, may re vive interest in the goldfields in this end of Papua, which were more or less abandoned after the war.
Mr. Gladstone took over the old Mararoa leases, on Misima Island, a few months back; and he now claims that he has found one of the richest patches of lode material ever seen on the island. He de scribes it as a new bit of country.
He says it is coarse gold, and should average two ounces to the ton over the plates. In places, a dish will give six to eight pennyweights. Some of the old hands are itching to get away and give Misima another try-out.
EDITORIAL NOTE—Misima has not been entirely abandoned. A com pany which is owned in Dunedin, New Zealand, and is called Quartz Investments Ltd. still holds its leases on Quartz Mountain. Mr. Alex Thomson, general manager of the Co., is there at the present time, and has been there for 2 h years, trying to rehabilitate the industry, and more particularly to make good the damage done by the cyclone in April, 1952.