LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Moose leads Ontario prospectors to gold

The picture shows three prospectors and a moose; from left to right, Myron Nelson, the moose, Nolan Cox and me. The moose, born and raised on the Beardmore-Geraldton gold belt in northwestern Ontario, loves pine needles growing from the main break called the Paint Lake or the Tombill-Bankfield fault. He always stops to eat exactly where the gold is located in the break. Consequently, we discovered a new method to prospect. Hopefully, an offspring can be found for future discoveries.

This Beardmore-Geraldton area was at one time the largest and richest gold mining region in Canada, probably North America. The stock market, flow-through shares, interest rates, and the new Ontario Mining Act are all trying to tell us the area is dead, never to mine again. Hugh Coulson Coulson Exploration Inc. Toronto, Ont.