Sovereign Gold company gold mine discoveries continue

Sovereign Gold Company has located a p42 36 jaw crusher for salereviously unrecorded gold mine shaft 1 km southwest from Frasers Find on EL 6483 in the Rocky River-Uralla Goldfield.

This shaft has been dedicated as the Diggers Shaft in honour of one of the last prospectors - Maurice Victor Charles Melvaine who passed away in 2010 aged at 90 years. The Diggers Shaft's significance was not fully understood until after the discovery of Frasers Find, interpretation of airborne magnetic data and review of historical documents about the goldfield. Samples of sheeted veins collected from waste piles beside Diggers Shaft assayed up to 2.39 grams per tonne gold, 3.76 ounces per tonne silver and 0.85% lead per tonne. No records of this shaft exist other than in A Prospector's Review of the Rocky River Goldfield at Uralla - an unpublished memoir written by Melvaine: "One of these reefs is a heavily mineralised true fissure reef which persists even though...