GENERAL MINING NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 137, 25 June 1872, Page 6

GENERAL MINING NEWS.

A nugget of pure gold, weighing 170 oa war* found at Inglewood recently. Mace's Company, at Reefton, crushed a tons receutly, with a return of 935 ozs. The Government quartz battery in Duned! was put in motion for the first time by J I Alves the other day. The ranges at tlie back of Mount Rockfoi | near Westport, are being thoroughly pro pected for auriferous quartz reefs, which a believed to exist in that quarter. The coal used in quartz-crushing operatic at Inangahua costs £l2 per ton. Hands 01 returns will be required from the reefs cover such an expenditure as this. The shareholders in the Excelsior Con gany, Ross, have yielded to the pressure fro' without, and again adopted the eight hoi system, having found it impossible to get m on nay oilier terms. __ New Zealand's coal supply is not likely 1 fail her for some time. On a recently opens coal-field at the Duller mouth, in the pro! pectors' ground alone there are sa ; d to } I not Jess thau 203,000 tons; while in a tie! at Waikato, the local paper is confident tk there ar3 nrll'ons of tons. A Northern paper says that when Captai Hutton, the assistant geologist, visited ft J h-awa Kaw.t coal mines recently, he directs | the miners to snik for a seam of coal, whi(j he told them would be found at a depth, ' f««t. The seam was reached at a depS ;of l:;s feet; an 1 the miners expressed <q-e; |u(l!nii-i!.t;(ma,tthjj-ccuiv.cyofCaptainHutt<)j Mr David Gr.di im, an ohl resident at Taj I rauga, on the oxas'on of his leaving the di' | i.r'ct ; is reported to have given the local pro; ; pect'ngassoci nion the following opinio') wy,he mineral wealth of the locality : "Thw were rumours of gold be-'ug found at Taj ranga. Me had himself scon nuggets of tbre I and four pounds wei -lit. From in formal ! of widen lie was possessed, lie had no hc«sita J t'ou >ii s.yii.'g that it was one of the riches ! m ; neral fields ; u the whole world not excepi Mn.:S..n hj Aus'raliaaud California." An Avici] •] 1 pap r states that an hdw : Sxhibiiiwti will |>e bold in the Tbara : Mah ores' Institute in August next. Thj exhilrtiou v.'il[ compr's > ad hinds of artk-la ' < ,: - ni -unfa.'lure but pr. foreuce will be shosj | <l • ■'" •-' winch most marly a.t'ect iheprogwj joi ,:i' go'd-i el -. Mode's of qoartx-crusliiiw ;I " ,|! 'd •-,-' i!at : ug boring and ; ohl mining a> ■ V,"'.''". ,s iii-o particularly di-s : red, and wit! L .,i;s \y,Y com nu'iicaiioiigjiave been senttj | j'.' nvnvand and the Suit hero provinces, i| j viihig i., 0 -cndi.,'.- of mode's of <h>s ! ind. ' '.'rvah-'e • I '> i,: li sat la ■;■ found hj '\\\ | m i i : a. 'i he L Mi-n'est-n LV'.Or "iis.-oi iheOJ s..ys —A'. m L a week ago we anniuncd , ■•■ vi a lvmour was alio it to too effect fiat] j '' !: ' > ■ ' 1 t'xteiv-.'vo patch of alluvial ; rou^ b ;d heon di-seov v ■! on .'he proper ;'.v"of Mi | A - Vv - Dew r. »e jr fh'dpor;, Tho'nnwonj munis oct to be snhy. i.i.iMY correct a.4 some claims have aheadv, we understand, been m ohed out on what the discoverers hm mined fie Don'/.on Diggings. Y^sterrlar some fine wa.-er-woru nuggets, the heavies) I weighing eWe on 0 dv,\ 5., wove on exhibit^ | : '*f iho 1: --;*- <>? V.D. L.. where they attracted I consder.'Me at'enthin."' The Auckland IL-;i!l understands that re] ; cent exnev'.nen.'s at the ?doa.nat.n*ari hdterj : : "'<-• '- ; '"•' to erioct a rev(il;iiion in the procsj ;of gohl-savnig. It li is long he, n known that Ia 1 ivge pev-ceiit'ge «.£ • o'd passes off from tad | ripple tables an 1 is lost, together with quick] si'ver. The 'method referred to saves boffl I gold and silver. The JTcivhl is not at liherq jio,state anything further regarding it, as I ! patent is -bout to be applied "for in i'he otld : eeh>n : o.-. but is aware that the discovery will not be mule a monopoly in New Zealand.! ! The results of a trial made are said to be re] nirrheddo. as we 1. in the saving of the pre] ohms meVl as in the economy of labour, j A rush, wh ch has occasioned some con] sulerable excitement, set in on Mav 30, onj some ground about a mile auda-half from tM back of Woodstock in the Kauieri district. Ine ground is situate on flm sideling of a terrace, and the lead is reached by tunnelling into the terrace. A party of four men have been prospecting on the ground for about throe months. The lead, which is about thirty feet wide, runs east and west, the depth of Avashdirt being close on four'feet. Already about a mile of ground has been taken up, and claims were being pegged out after dark that night. A very large rush was expected, and a belief prevails that there will be ground enough along the lead for two thousand men. The lead near the mouth of the prospectors' tunnel shows the best prospects. It is twenty-six feet wide and from nun- vo live feet deep. There is anotherle.nl about seventy or eighty feet within the tunneb the wasl'dud of which is from one foot to eighteen inches thick. The prospectors have driven ihrongi; it sixty fcot and have not yet come ti> the end of its width, and though only shabow at, the commencement, it gets j thicker towards where they have left offttraneibng. The prospectors are very sanguine j ; of having a pile claim, which will give them three or four years' work. About one hundred yards from the prospectors' claim, on the other side of the creek, a party of four men from the Kauieri took up a clahnOß Friday and commenced working. They had oily dr'veu three or feet into the bill when they struck gold, which in their pa v wed ; ." the prospects continue the same, They do not behove they are on the same! .lead as the prospectors, but consider they have struck another one. An advantage in] working this ground which is worth mention] ling, is that there is plenty of water closed I hand.—Hokitika Leader.