The Girua River is a river located in the
Oro Province
Oro Province, formerly (and officially still) Northern Province, is a coastal province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Popondetta. The province covers 22,800 km2, and has 176,206 inhabitants (2011 census). The province shares la ...
of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
.
Alluvial
gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...
was discovered in the river late in the 19th century. By 1898, about 150 miners were working on the Gira and
Mambare rivers.
[Nelson, Hank (1976) Black, white & gold: goldmining in Papua New Guinea 1878-1930, Canberra, Australian University Press, p.118]
References
Rivers of Papua New Guinea
Oro Province
Gold mines in Papua New Guinea
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