USSR. has despatched to the Tom-mot a scientific expedition com ced of expert geologists and mining engineers.
According to the papers the ex: pedition left Moscow at the end of September 1924, and must be on the spot by now. But even under: much more favourable conditions the exploration of such a vast ter~ ritory as the Tommot would have taken years to accomplish. And even then the results obtained must have been of very superficial nature because exploring is impossible without prospecting. Prospecting is quite different to exploration, in that the former is a part of tha exploitation. work, and-demands a Qtherwise it may be that the Gov-will give up this plan, a being in need of gold, will risk ing "it by the same methods as the rest of the inhabit lants of the Tommot.
But dredges jean not be then, unless aeroplanes can be found carry the dredges to the Tommo'. However, it is a very important ching that those sections have been found fit for dredging, for that confirms the fact thnt the gold there is fying at such a depth that the elevator of the dredge can reach it, and further that if there is no fundamental layer beneath the upper one, the gold of the Tommot must be' very easy of access.
Can the Tommot be Exhausted?
What is being done on the Tom-mot now, cannot be called other than the roughest plundering of gold. A- few thousands of pods have been washed out, bu; from a thousands of boods left the earth, Even after the dredges hav done their work, there is gold left som New Discoveries around the Tomin: of Eastward and southward of the: Tommot, according to recent infor motion, large deposits of platinu have been found. Up to the pr sent the Ural Mountains were th only place where this precious metal has been mined, However, jas we must be very careful in Jeepting news coming from this m: jsterious land, we will better leave ithe question of inurn until seri-investigation proves the truth of the rumour.
Tt must not be forgotten that interest in the Tommot has grown by fieaps and bounds in the last few months and that.news coming from there is mostly monstrously exaggerated. To-morrow we may ear of diamond folds just found, bat we shall do better to believe Even in chronic forms of eczema, im Sores, riters, piles, blood povosne, ete, igo. puoriase, ringworm, be, aht
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