. mining and engineering journal . to say, they are low grade rather than high grade. Theprospects may be summed up by sayin that they ofTer thej)0Esibilltv of fairly large low grade bodies being provedprofitable to work. THE GOLDEN VALLEY AND SHAGARI GOLD FIELDS. Brief Survey of the District—A Wave of Activity—A Cluster of Promising Ventures. The Hartley mining district continues to justify its repu-tation as a happy hunting ground fdr tributors ard smallmine workere. Although a number of properties in thevicinity of Hartley and Gatooina have within the last fewyears been transferred fro
. mining and engineering journal . to say, they are low grade rather than high grade. Theprospects may be summed up by sayin that they ofTer thej)0Esibilltv of fairly large low grade bodies being provedprofitable to work. THE GOLDEN VALLEY AND SHAGARI GOLD FIELDS. Brief Survey of the District—A Wave of Activity—A Cluster of Promising Ventures. The Hartley mining district continues to justify its repu-tation as a happy hunting ground fdr tributors ard smallmine workere. Although a number of properties in thevicinity of Hartley and Gatooina have within the last fewyears been transferred from the small syndicate t-o the largelimited liability company, there are still a very large num-ber of ? small mines working, and there is every reasonfor believing that the list will be augmented. In theHartley-Gatooma fields few localities have come so rapidlyto the fore as the Golden Valley and Shagari districts. Afairly good road has been made from Gatooma to the GoldenValley, and a journey along this makes it quite clear that. A Typical Hhhuesian .Mining the owners of claims in the two districts are progressive menwith progressive ideas. On all sides one sees material evi-dences of activity—now mills, new development schemes,new headgears, preparations for increased production andmore extensive exploitation. Ci.\Ti)\ TO THE Golden V.\\ flying survey through these ra])idly extending gold-fields will best serve to iiulitnte the present position andthe outlook for increased production. Six miles from(iatooma is the Half-way House on the road to the GoldenValley, and a little further on, and a short distance fromthe roful, are the White Rose claims, the property of Maek, where a O-stamp mill from the Milky \Vay willsoon be erected—theae claims are most promising, and the trial crushings already made have turned out exceedinglywell. Near these claims are the Choiseul and La Franceblocks, tributed from Messrs. Keegan and Way by ard S
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