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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68

Promising Gold Ventures

Promising Gold Ventures.

The newly discovered Nenthorn Reefs, 24 miles from Dunback Railway Station, Otago, show very rich indications, and their accessibility is in their favour; but it will take some months to fairly test them.

The working of the Island Block, Clutha, is in the hands of a Victorian Company, and extensive water appliances will be needful.

Black sand will be extensively worked at the Clutha and elsewhere as soon as a satisfactory method of dealing with it is discovered. As such as 15dwt. to the ton has been taken out of thin layers near the Clutha, and it is found in various spots from Catlin's to the Bluff. It [unclear: as] been worked off and on for a length of time in small quantities, the problem now is to deal with it by machinery on a large scale, and the [unclear: results] of the Welman Dredge are looked for with interest.