MINING INTELLIGENCE

Charleston Argus, Volume 1, Issue 11, 20 April 1867, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE

The heavy rainfall during the week ha* supplied a want which was being seriously felt by the working community, and it is fully anticipated that the parcels of gold offering for sale will exceed considerably the quantities disposed of during the past month.

Large numbers of miners have flocked back to Charleston from the Buller. and we hear a still larger number may be expected. It by no menus follows from this that the rush is unsatisfactory, but it still indicates that the ground is either very difficult to work, of limited extent, or exaggerated as to its richness. At any rate there are ample opportunities here for all comers, and the workings as a rule being shallow, offer considerable, advantages to those possessed of but limited means. A project is in view for supplying the plains with water raised from the Nile by means of hydraulics. Should this turn out practicable, and be carried into effect, it must prove an immense benefit to the district, the scarcity of the aqueous fluid having been hitherto our sole drawback.

On the Middle Flat the miners have been doing better latterly, and it only requires a good water supply to prove that tiie whole of this flat is payable. From Candlelight the reports are exceedingly favorable, and the claims generally not exceeding two feet in depth, a large amount of work is being got through. At the rear of the Darkie's Terrace a new rush set in during the we t ;k and good ground opened up. The lend is being traced into the spurs running into the higher terraces, and there is every prospe *t of deep ground being opened of a precisely similar nature to the Fox's diggings. Should this be realized, and it is confidently expected it will, these diggings will assume a very extensive character; as it is, rushes set iu almost daily over the extensive fiats

i ' o •. ;.c:t we borrow the original name - t. and - It hough these workings, 1 permanent a character as at • is fuliy counkrbalancedby the v lof pay aMy auriferous country. iiltOlV Vt OTK !l)gS vary much in tt •-. part miners may be seen •rr; - roots raid mould a few irL and hard by a foot r < -]> 'emer.Ud sand contains the 1 r<: h-ronce to the latter, we may V - 'd fsoinc; plan were adopted for either by water or or. a certain [.ile would reward I present; the cement is by means of a kind of paviour's 'i'.icb does the work very ineffi■:ng band labor is a very slow There are millions of tons of this remcnt, which would doubtless pay hand■omely if worked upon an approved principle.