MINING

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3472, 12 March 1912, Page 3

MINING

THE KARA ME A FT KM). Capt. Robert Johnson, of Kara men, who has been in Gisborne during the last few weeks in connection with a mining venture, -is the registered nnasff prietor of ten 100-acre claims (42 years' lease) Radiant, which is sitnnjyi&ffn the Karamea mining distd^S®**^ The minerals there is a very vaj ptmfe one', as regards the Jnglt percentage of metals, the ore contained, and: on account of the vast deposits, [t is proposed to dispose of a sin ill portion owner's interest in the mine to JNehf Zealand investors, to I'vither davoloif the mine, and place Jjheproperty iiwthe L«ndon and Ameripti^ l markd s. fojjjf fiotatijm. Jj . J&egrai/ if with alo|intpia/lian't| attpfarecl in the Week]! 7 V re %jfi a rf-ei|Joate: • W. JUragan, fvlio had a lengthy mining experience if Queensland, New South* 'Wales, Victoffia, Tasmania, New Zea Mid, and other farts of Australasia, has returned to Westport from a days’ visit to Mount Radiant, mea, and speaks in high terms q/f the " prospects of the latter milling field. “It is,” he says, “one of tke greatest things I hav£ ever country is h<ard, fast, and soljdv and the reef extends over at four and a half miles. In really do not know the full exjetfr of it. It is hard to say where ta**pick the best samples from, for the reef appears to he uniformly good. It is a regular mint, of material. It will take, capital to open and handle it, but not so much after all, as there is every facility in .the w a .y of timber and water power required. " One lot of stone has been picked frclm various parts of the mineral belt and forwarded to America to have it properly tested. This field, like the Para para, iron deposits, belongs to the country. It is a marvellous mineral belt; Karamea as a mining centre has a great future; I like it better than either Alt. Alorgan’in Queensland or Alt. Lyell in Tasmania.”*