✨ Gold Discovery Theory
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.
VOL. VIII.] FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1861. [No 40
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th December, 1861.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the following “Theory for the discovery of Gold in this Province, with the facts and reasoning on which it is founded” by the Hon. James Coutts Crawford, to be published for general information.
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.
To His Honor
J. E. Fetherston,
Superintendent of the Province
of Wellington.
Wellington, Nov. 30, 1861.
Sir,—
I have the honor to submit the following theory for the discovery of gold in this Province, with the facts and reasoning on which it is founded; and which, whether of value or not, will I hope prove of interest.
A few days ago I rode to the Karori and Waireka Valleys, near Cape Terawhite, and although the men who had been at work at the diggings there were absent and I was therefore unable to obtain various details, yet I found an inspection of the valleys highly suggestive as to the direction in which a search for gold should be prosecuted.
There is nothing new in the mineral character of the rocks in the Terawhite district—they seem to consist of a slaty rock, laminated with veins of quartz; of the usual hard green chrysaline sandstone, veined with thin threads of quartz; some hornstone or chert indicating probably the no great distance of plutonic rocks; some serpentine; and a slaty rock containing iron pyrites, which may possibly belong to the first named stratum, but which seems to me identical with the specimens of the bed rock of Tuapeka, which I have seen. All the above named rocks are repeated at various points of the Rimutaka and
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1861, No 40
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🌾 Publication of Gold Discovery Theory
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources4 December 1861
Gold, Discovery, Mining, Geology, Wellington Province
- James Coutts Crawford (Honourable), Author of gold discovery theory
- J. Woodward, Acting Provincial Secretary
- J. E. Fetherston, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington