MINING NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 1, 3 November 1869, Page 1

MINING NEWS.

y> COEOMANDEL; *ery good accounts' have readied Aiickil from the Brian Bora claim, CoromanThe proprietors of this claim are ick 'Two.ull and brothers (5), who are i i known both in Greymouth and u-leston. The claim adjoins the All tions, Harbour View, and Dublin City; j is., silifatecT-tfn "the" dividing range- beien Kennedy's Bay aiid Coromandel, 1 contains ten men's ground. The claim | only veiy lately been taken up, and I company is putting in two drives, and Ire struck some very promising leaders ; 111 drives are in about 60 feet, and a f, which -has been found to be payable, I been struck during the last few days. 8 reef is supposed to be the highly aujrous one struck in the Harbour A r iew. e reefs from Morgan's and the prospects are expected to traverse this ground. NEW SOUTH WALES. From Major's Creek, the correspondent x'he Braidwood Dispatch writes : —" We ; all excitement, and the old creek proits the usual characteristics of a genuine ■;h from every direction. There comes almost hourly news of other and more luable discoveries, while crowds of people to Araluen and other places pass through quiring the road to Spring Creek or tier localities. The diggers are busy on e different leads sinking, and all are in II spirits with the idea that the stone H he very rich. We cannot, however, sure of the value of this until a crushis comes. An engine will be on the tek next week, and soon We hope to Hcome the machinery for crushing purfees among us. Spring Greek is still the pourite locality, but large numbers of trims are taken up and being worked from hj ridge separating Long Flat from the ek, and on both side's of the creek down. . Wednesday a very .rich prospect was itaincl by a party of lads on a leader ■ig parallel, or nearly so, with Wilson's i\v celebrated lead ; this has been named 13 "Young Australian." On the morn(a/of Wednesday,, this leader w;ts collared valueless ; in the evening, £SO was jeied and refused for one-fifth share. oqcl prospects are obtained near Chapel tat on another'leader. The quartz on the ipfer'part of the creek is of a dark, burnt irbiir, and the gold is not so line as that >tained on Dargue's and Thompson's reefs t Spring Creek. So fine is it in the aims in this locality, that the water will lid it in solatium, and prospects may be itained' from it ; and, altogether, our respects are declared'tc' J be good, although ,-ery discovery will, not be so valuable, laims are taken up for a very long dismce towards Jembaicunibeno."

TASMANIA. I Our telegraphic message {vera Lauuces>n on Saturday night, Sept. IS, brought irther good news from Waterhouse. Two itters had been received from the digings, one from one cf th« lucky party, te other from a disinterested person, both iUmating a discovery of gold yielding a wt. to the shovelful. The discoverers are, •e.presume, not practical miners, etherise they could not, we should think, be 1 much doubt whether they had come on ;tz or alluvial gold. Though the test!tg of only one shovelful is mentioned, it to be presumed that the discoverers sasfied themselves they had come on somedug more than a "pocket" or disconacted deposit of gold, otherwise their artners would not nt once have set off for be scene of operations.— Jlobart Town fercuri/. We have had a flying visit from Mr ibpeland and Mr Curmichael, two of the entlcmen interested in the purchase of lie claims. They set men to work to bail ut the hole in the prospector's claim, and 0 get up some quartz, some of which was eautifully covered with gold, but all of it itceediugly hue. The quartz does not how handsome specimens, but will" give lie handsomest results after crushing, the old beiiig fine, and thoroughly distributed 'A through'the stone. I have no doubt of he bargain being completed, as by cavitation I find that, if the reef is only excavated to the present depth (thirty feet) byoughout thoir claim,' and it yields only u'ee ounces to the ton, its value at £3 tar ounce woulu be £68,600 ; hut I have mly calculated it at three ounces, whereas h he last crushing yielded over thirty ounces o the ton.— Cornwall (jhr'onidc. 'x A regular,. although secret, trade hns wrung up in Auckland for the sale of piartz specimens for the purpose of " salt■ag "• newly discovered reefs.'