MINING NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2611, 5 November 1915, Page 8

MINING NEWS

WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. No business was done in the mining market yesterday, and the quotations were as under;— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Murray Creek (old) — 116 6 *Murray Cr.eek (new) — 0 16 6 Murray's Freehold — 14 6 Talisman — (116 0 Walhi' : 116 6 — ♦Premium. LONDON MINING'QUOTATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, November 3. .Broken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at 446. and 445. 6d.

MURRAY OEEEK COMPANY. The mine managor. of the Murray Creek Gold Mining ■Company, Ltd., reports for the month >,of October as follows:—"The contractors have stoped 185J tons off the leading, stope south of No. 1 winze in the intermediate level. Wages men were' employed in No. 3 level, opening out north of the point, the reef was intersected to enable points to be put in for a lay-bye. Tho distance driven on the reef was 10 feet, width of reef in the face, 2 feet. The total distance' driven on the reef from the south, to north faxes is 114 feet. Everything is in readiness _to commence the loading stope, and' air and water-pipes have been relaid from the shaft to the face. Fifty tons of quartz have been hoisted from' No. 3 level and dumped into No. 3 ore bin. One hundred and sixty tons of quartz have been crushed, from which 530z. 2dwt. of retorted gold and 28oz. of amalgam were' obtained. Pending the arrival of new plates the foundations of the stamper boxes were relaid in, concrete, and only five heads of stamps have since been running."

Since Teceipt of the foregoing report the mine manager telegraphs: "Installed new plates, crushing 10 stamps; everything working satisfactorily."