MINING NEWS
• WAIHI BEEFS-GIGANTIC. The mine manager of the Waihi Beefs* CHga-ntic Consolidated, Ltd., in ris report on operations at the mine for the week e'nded March 27, says:—The contractor foT crosscuts at t-ho 1000 feet level ha 6 extended Uie north face 19 feet, and the south-east face 11 feet, making the total for the week 30 feet. We are now out from the shaft 316 feet in the north end and 226 feet in the south-east end, penetrating solid country in. both faces. In the north end the rock is of a dark colour, intermixed with silica veins, and small bunches of quartz formation, and there ha« been a slight flow of coming from the face for the last 20 feet driven. In the south-east face the country is a grey andesite, and not bo strong as that in the north face, but 6tands firmly without timbering, and fis favourable for carrying reefs formation. HIGGINSON AND MACSHANE, 143 Feather6ton Street, Wellington. SHAREBKOKERS and ACCOUNTANTS. MONEY TO LEND on First-class Freehold Security.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 8
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173MINING NEWS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 8
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