QUARTZ MINING MEMORANDA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 236, 19 May 1874, Page 5

QUARTZ MINING MEMORANDA.

We are indebted to a Camckton correspondent for the following items of new 3 concerning the Carrick reefs : • The Royal Standard Company finished a crushing of forty tons of stone on Tuesday, the 12th instant. The yield was fifty-four ounces of retorted gold. A crushing they had sortie time ago from the leader gave the company encouragement to continue work. They have another crushing grassed, waiting for an opportunity to get it put through. The Kohinoor Company are carting a trial crushing of stone to Mr Logan's battery, to be in readiness when the John Bull finish their crushing. The Try Again Company had fifty-nine tons of stone crushed some time ago at the Royal Standard battery, which gave a yield of forty-five ounces and a half. The company is now busy grassing stone. The Carrick Range United Company are still going on with + heir tunnel. It is at present in about two hundred and fifty feet, and they mean to continue driving till they cut the reef. The reef cut the other day in the Star of the East tunnel is certainly to a 1! appearances the most valuable discovery that has been made on the Carrick Range. The reef is about eighteen inches thick, and, judging from prospects, it ought to yield not less than an ounce to the ton. The reef, is cut at a good depth, and there cannot be Jess than, three hundred feet of stone overhead. The Elizabeth Company are preparing the approach for a tunnel at a still deeper level, and it is to be hoped they will be equally successful. They have an almost certain prospect of cutting a rich lode of stone. The rock in the Caledonian tunnel is getting softer, and it has much need. The hardiness of the Lucknow tunnel has become proverbial, but the Caledonian cannot be far behind it. The Heart of Oak Co. finished a crushing of sixty-four tons of stone on Saturday. The

yield of gold is not yet known, but will likely be somewhere about one hundred ounces.