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MINUsXl IN SOUTH AUBTRAIIA.
TRU.R0 WHEAL 1URTOX COPPER MCfB.—
Our Truro correspondent wrote on October 21:—
For the laet few weeks negotiacions have been
pendintr ito start the above mine, and last night
a, .uicKUEg -was aeia to try ana form a syndicate
Mr. E. Casile, oi Port Darwin -who is a native
of Truro), visited the mine. He has had expe
rience of mining in the Territarv, and was im
pressed wa-th tbe prospects of tie Truro Mine.
Uipt. Horns reported favourably on it, and offl
-ial reports on it are likewise good, including
that by Mr. R. Lockbart Jack (Assistant Govern
ment Geologist). A commHtoe has been formed
^!thr,Mr- G- K- steinIce as Secretary and Mr. L.'
M. Gleeson, Treasurer. A -further meeting will
?,,^.ld in aiK-ut a ^rtnisht. after wbidh work
will .be started. In iaa the mine was worked,
and SB iands were employed. It -was yieldins
aatisfactonly, but mainly on account of ithe Vic
toron gold rush was closed down
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