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942 tons 12 'cwt. 1 (Ir. of, ore gave
„ 7,041 0
eqUal to 7± our
,ces per ton. 7,041 ozs. of Gold,
-.The above operati.or,s of the now celebrated Vigra and
ti.looga.o CotaT ,any, f7Sttirate near Dolgelly, Merionethshire,
existencequ of gold i'a tl-je
ioi ing the results o'i 191 months' working, prove the
quartz reefs of North Wales in such
aboa4vel a*
..,ss as to be largely remunerative. The
ginaloea CAd Hunt,
tveo ,
r°' J3Par',Y) rAlthough profits s been in operation
doubleslss than
et 3-des 'yielded in p more than its or&
awia,' itlr...y, o,nd is at the present moment making returns
its ea Ay At Po rate approaching three times the amount of
proc (pital, from operations on a very limited scale, and by
me mosses which are, no doubt, capable of great improve-
fit.
c Ara Thiops Companym is established for the purpose of carrying
erat
of on a very large scale, and by the best known
klrou -
ethod ext-ruction, and the directors have secured a
il of gold
.-;:
quartzjinines immediately contiguous to, and
almost surrounding the famous Clogau Gold Mine; they
the
of tl,lO Cambrian, the North Vigra, the Wellington,
"le liendr eforion setts, comprising.. an
.extent of upwards of
1,600 acrrj,s, and abounding in
,magnificent quartz lodes,
Which
f„7.1 are in appearance identical with the Clogau gold
..,,,e, e.nd 'may be pronouticed to be inexhaustible.
have The
, 112 f ..nes have been opened, and important discoveries
prop uee a made. In the Cambrian are several lodes already
e.-i
have u.._ to contain gold, and levels to a considerable extent
tons L'.een driven upon t'aem, opening up many thousand
wiT 'of quartz. Rich visible gold has been broken there
la, ein the last few days. Buildings, stamps, machinery, a
a eF,'e water-wheel, dressing floors, tramways, and other
P'liances, have beeat constructed at a large expenditure,
d at least three y ears'
nee time
commence
active operations at
'
The Directorf, have availed themselves of the presence :in
England of Car,dtain Thomas Treloar (late Chief Captain of
the St. John. del Rey Company), to obtain his valuable
faction to 1
opinion on the several properties, and they refer with satis-
-1',.5 report, as bearing out their expectations of
sUccessful 'results.
tenln the Wellington and North Vigra Mines, levels have
dri yen. on large lodes, which Captain Treloar has pro-
David, las identical in character with the quarts of the St.
''',,,_avid' s Gold Lode, and this is confirmed by the opinion of
:11°Lute), competent authorities, including Captain Parry, of
,_ .e Vigra and Clogau Mines, and Captain Pascoe, who all
.03-tik that one of the lodes now working on the North Vigra
Hi a continuation of that now famous lode.
No st Ram power will be required. The property possesses
44 unfailing supply of water, amply sufficient for all pur-
„Pesee,. and r...Terything is in so forward a state that the Com-
pany wili be able to stamp at the rate of 70 to 100 tons of
'III, tz per week within one month from its formation.
n 4 he Directors have made arrangements to purchase the
'zit ire interests of the several proprietors, embracing all pre-
vi, ans outlay on the mines, and every expense up to the for-
t" lotion of the Company, and including buildings, machinery,
reps, waterwheels, tramways, watercourses, ore upon
&urc, &c., upon the following terms, viz. :—The sum of
425,000, and 25,00',) shares with £1 paid, which the vendors
have stipulated to have appropriated to them.
the
That on nearly one thousand tons of quartz crushed by
of standard gobi per ton has been obtained, is an indisput-
able fact ; but it would be too sanguine to expect a result so
fitvouralJle on the large scale of operations contemplated by
this Co mpany. Yet the Directors feel bound to call atten-
tion to, another fact, viz., that a profit of nearlyXloo,ooo has
'Pen realised by the St, John del Rey Company, in Brazil,
u
_ariug the past year, from ore containing an average of only
l'iee aree.q once uarters of an of gold per ton, and they are ad-
Parly that
an very large dividends can be made by this Cora-
i
ta:med. of f avert-Age only half an ounce per ton can be ob-
Samples c.,f the gold ore from the Cambrian Mines to be
seen B
at tb
,a Exhibition;
of the Class 1, Eastern Annex, and copies
author kports of Captain Thos. Treloar and other mining
Ales, may be had at the offices of the Company.
FArge portion of the capital has already been subscribed.
Pros pectuses and forms of application for the remaining
she cos may be obtained of Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill,
29, 'Threadneedle-street, the brokers of the company. A
deposit of 10s. upon each share applied for must be paid to
'the Company's Bankers previously to the application being
gent in ; this sum will be returned if no allotment is made
'to the applicant.
August 14, 1862.

REPORT OF OAPT, THOMAS TRELOAR, LATE
CHIEF CAP TAIN OF THE ST, JOHN DEL HEY
MINES.

London, August 7, 1862.
To the Dir ectors of the " Cambrian Consolidated Gold
Gentler Mines Company," London.
the Doll, y I have, agreeably to your request, visited
eill gold field in North Wales,
rn„.°f °Al'. existence of gold in Wales, I have been aware for
qirY years, but that it occurred there in any appreciable
pilajltitY, I did not believe until a few days ago. Indeed,
piece you asked me to inspect some gold mines at that
'sr ce, my impression was, that I should find there a little
.) the precious metal manifestly out of its place. I was
agreeably disappointed.
b 0 the
The future of 'North Wales is in the womb of time • but
rtehs,ault wliat it may, at present there is a goldfield
Veal. Dolgelay of high promise, one which merits the atten-
-miner and capitalist, and my regret was that I
all not Pectin, days at my dis?osal than I had hours for in-
ca.,"z
,eareful geological examination by me was out of the
owing to want of time ; but I may state that, on
tho' B.7.ateal at the gold field, the rock, the hilly nature of
surface, the rugged onAcrop of the lode, and the moun-
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offo Ceder Idris in the distance, forcibly reminded
e a portion of the gold mining field in Brazil.
..13 At the Dolgelly gold fields a kind of green stone seems to
the th frame rock of the count, but the rock
aUriferous lode is a tolerably hard dark slate. enc
Tolosin theg /l flie latter appears wanting in the mineral life, but this
at•tire is contradicted by the lodes, for they, so far as yet
'eltd, present great mineral and metalliferous vitality.
Of tile number and extent of the lodes in the Dolgelly
gold field, or the extent of the field itself, I believe no one
iet knows.
I saw mines and surface diggings at nine dif-
vehtellt Points d I believe they aro on six different lodes
-6hie ladingcharacters are more or less the same. They
al'e Parallel, fhey run easterly and westerly, underlie a trifle
11°1th, forrd:
in many places high angles with the cleavage
planes "A the containing rock, and consist chiefly of aurife-
°-: clwartz, iron, copper, iron pyrites, and blende.
fo,ZAs rA class, they are not so wide as the auriferous rock
thtijaa ;:ttiji:oellosrainp Brazil. They do not average, perhaps, more
three feet wide ; but, as I shall show directly, the
ensates for the difference in size.
blhe names of the mines, or infant diggings, are St.
avid's, Wellington, Vigra, Hendreforin, Llac h-Fraith,
tild Cambrian. Of these. St. David's and Cambrian have tifforded the greatest quantities of gold, because they have
,ceil more extensively wrought. In both the precious-'etal was visible w'aen I was there, and handsome speci-
tells were quarries} in my presence, especially at the Cam-
AtQ
'eeing w:ts believing.
the Wellington sett the lode is wide, so it is capable of
Yielding large liesimilar of mineralto St. David's which inLode. all respects,
"eept visible golm d,pis s
tilThe longitudinal extent examined by me was about two
es, or fr,Jrn Wellington to Cambrian, and this distance
it!euffl:scieritly large for extensive mining operations.
"P•vid's Lode, in the Clogau Hill, is the most eaten-
fielddeveloped, but even this, I must repeat, is in its in-
Taking, however, the results already obtained here
1-Ja.sis, I feel constrained to say that the Dolgelly gold
is a locality of very high promise. The excavations
"a the lode consist of a couple of levels, a winze, and a little
mtoping. The total quantity of mineral quarried does not
*perhaps exceed 2,010 tons, Of this I find by the official
returns supplied me that 942 tons have been treated, that
it yielded 7,041 ounces of gold, or 7i ounces per ton, and
that its net value amounted to £26,579.
The rich ore has been very properly se fro te
poor for treatment, and while the former hapsarated yielded n m
nearly
400 ounces of gold per ton, the latter has given upwards of
an ounce, Even if the ore on the bank were worthless—
'Which is not the fact, for it consists of the ordinary stone
t three
from the Mine—still the gold
giveextractedvfuopuldardsof an
aver-
ago standard or yield for the Mine
of w
ounces of gold per ton. Viewing, therefore, all the eircum •
stances as to the quantity of the ore yet untreated, and the
uode of treatment, the average value of thooetw the
elaovderalsg ore peetri the
lliirards of five ounces of gold per ton. N
'celebrated St. John Del Hey 1V rme does not
quarters of an ounce per ton.
believtheOclrlgineelleyevgeorldy
A. visit to t Exhibion would, I
"oubting mind as to the high promise o-
F
tem.
It may not be amiss to mention that in. working gold
Illines in rock formations, quarrying by driving ct
should be avoided as much as porsible, and uncleymhaenndwsotorkp:
!rig be the mode tesorted to. As a rule, a pair of
411 R on blasting ground
hcannot quarry in .a year, when
labour and
14°Ping underhand ld with the same
driving or iakhmore t an about 240 tons, whereas when
hey wou cs_ost, except a trifle more for hauling the ores,. quarry 600
was . .
ti • This difference is of great importance in the hand-
ng of mines.
e reduction process, too, now in operation at St.
"d's, would be inadequate to the treatment of gold creosr
i 1,4 a large scale. If amalgamation be the best system f
Dolgelly gold field, then stamping mills and barrel
Xalgalnat
nowien
in op wora uldti on.
be
more suitable than the small ma-
e
I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
(Signed) THOMAS T RELOAR.

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