QUARTZ MINING MEMORANDA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 203, 30 September 1873, Page 5

QUARTZ MINING MEMORANDA.

B E N D I G 0. | Mr Colclough, for the manager of the Lucknow Co., reports that the District Surveyor' kindly took some measurements for this com- i pany, and he states that the tunnel was about 20 feet from the reef (assuming the reef to be perpendicular). The tunnel level is 190 feet. The rook still continues very hard, but it breaks out better than before. The Cromwell company had a cleaning up of another parcel of 120 tons of stone List week, returning a cake of 293 oza. retorted gold. The average yield would have been the same as that of the two previous crushings, but that some fifty tons of the quantityof stone mentioned was very poor stuff, got in sinking the shaft previous to striking the gold. The company intend having another washing up this week of the same quality of stone. They are driving at present and foli:l©wrag.tk« run of gold. Thoy arc also deepen-

ing a shaft lower down the spur to strike the Bame run. The stone still continues good and reef strong. ;i The Reliance claim has been surveyed, and their application for a lease of ten acres granted. It is likely they will set about prospecting the claim at once, as the weather is as favourable as could be required. The Aurora company still continue driving I heir way from the old workings, and are getting into new ground. At the same time, they are sinking a shaft some distance from the gully on the same line, so as to open up more ground and employ more men. Their mill put through a parcel of twenty-two tons of stone, got by Mr W. Anderson from a leader on the boundary of the Aurora lease. It turned out only nine ounces, a result too poor to encourage the idea of continuing working the lead.