✨ Report on quartz reef
THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
Published by Authority.
All Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XVII. NELSON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1869. No. 37.
Superintendent's Office,
Nelson, October 25th, 1869.
THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the following Report for general information.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
REPORT ON THE QUARTZ REEF FOUND IN THE WANGAPEKA DISTRICT.
THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY, NELSON.
SIR,—In answer to your letter, dated October 14th, I beg to report, for the information of his Honor the Superintendent, that I have visited the quartz reef lately discovered in the Wangapeka district.
On the 18th instant, I wrote a hurried note, giving an outline of the real facts of the case; and as I have seen no reason to alter any of the statements made in that note, I will embody it in this report to avoid recapitulation :—
"To his Honor the SUPERINTENDENT, Nelson.
"SIR,—As I have a chance of sending to Nelson, I will write a few lines, merely to say that I have seen the reef, which appears to be about two and a-half or three feet thick, running N.N.W., and dipping about 80 degrees to the east. In many places you can see the gold with the naked eye; and before I had been there more than a few minutes, I succeeded in getting a very nice specimen from the solid reef, which I will bring to Nelson. Of course I cannot say whether this is sufficient to pay for working, as a very small part of it has been opened, and I suppose nothing but actual mining will prove it. However, of this there is no doubt—it is a gold-bearing reef, and crops out in a gully about 800 feet above Blue Creek, and runs almost in the same direction, so that it will be easily worked by tunneling from the steep hill-side, without sinking shafts. There is water-power to drive any quantity of
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1869, No 37
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🌾 Report on the quartz reef discovered in the Wangapeka District
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- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary