Prospecting for gold in Queensland is receiving more attention now than it has received for quite a generation past. That is the verdict of the Department of Mines and it has been estimated that upwards of 2,500 men are engaged in the search, either individually or in parties, and many of them are making good wages and more. Almost daily claims and leases are being registered in all parts of the State, from the Cape York Peninsula, in the north, down to the New South Wales border, and even as far out as Cloncurry in the north-west. On most of the old goldfields, too, where in years gone by fortunes were made, can be seen miners' tents and huts, and the fields by day are veritable hives of activity. The extent of this State-wide search for the precious metal is well revealed in the figures for 1932. The Queensland gold yield for last year was the best for very many years. Production was 20,070 ounces, valued at 85,252 pounds, nearly twice that for 1931 (10,321 ounces, valued at 43,841 pounds).
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