Glass Earth Begins Drilling for Gold in New Zealand

Gold exploration company Glass Earth Gold has started drilling at a site in Central Otago, New Zealand, the company announced today.

Last year Glass Earth carried out an airborne geophysics survey targeting gold over 1.3 million hectares in Otago, which continued into exploration work over the last eight months.

The company said today it was advancing a sequence of ranked prospects and has started drilling on initial target Sparrow Hawk, at Rough Ridge, Central Otago.

That work involved two orientated diamond holes, and would take about two months to complete and receive assay results for, according to the company.

In total, some 5,500 soil samples, 600 rock chip samples and 700 stream sediment samples over 24 prospects had been collected and assayed in the past eight months, the company said.

That had led to the advancement of five prospects to drilling and a further 19 following through.

The Central Otago Gold Rush was a brief phenomenon during the 1860s with the discovery of gold at Gabriel's Gully leading to a rapid influx of foreign miners, writes the New Zealand Herald .

By staff writer