MINING NEWS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1185, 14 November 1884, Page 3

MINING NEWS

The news fiom the White’s Beef on the ’Old Man Bin>ge is mo.ethsu ordinarily ■cheer Ui, the manager reporting the reef to have made (in .lie main tanoelj quite solid, and cai lying richer gold than has yet ■ eeu meen, and, moreover, indicating .a greater permanency. -Thedepth from the .surface le.tinw close <m 174 Van 1 if as (here is plenty of, ,-vidence to believe—the s one marries ightup to the surface, without considering what is tobefoond underfoot, the oom any has a proper y the equal of which has not hitherto bee ..-found iu Otago. We were .diown a sma-1 parcel of stone us lakn in is oiminately from the soil atone lately <0 ud, and we have tit le bealta cy in pr>')» trouncing it futly r Up to I'kia 10 the ton, whi-sl others gut it dow.i at fully twice tb t value, Tue stone, though soli , is laminated, ami no piece of ii, however small, but what carries numbeiieaa Coarse specs -of bright gold, and moreuvir, it was re niarkab y clear from, immdiu or py-ito.*. Everyone is quite jubilant over the tiud, «>.d there is but httl - rbubt that at the in- e’ing of shut eholiteis convened for Situr--day, the 22nd inst., to consider the a vieabtiity 01 raising the monthly call from 3i to 6d (er sha'e' l-ut that the proposition w lid e carnei with ut a dissentient voice. Ai’j'-in ng claim, holders have caught the inteo ion produced ly this find, and are setting into work at once with a will. 4t is to be understood that stone has 'bufi followed along the tunnel for the past 7 -ft or more, but hitherto it has been ,-ql afiial le nature and much shattered, the d -d therefore now particularly refeired to is'in no way nw, excepting in its being more solid and hence more permanent and that it visildy carries more gold. A sample of the stoi*c from some distance further back in tie tunnel was sent to Mr • Me Vit.-m, the assayer for the Bank of New Za dand, Dunedin, and frond bis report we take the following; ■ “Specimens qf stone fr< m White’s Reef are very pretty, .and certainly very tempting, the gold lieing hrigh ‘ ter and c user and the stone cleaner than -any I have seen in Otago. I. should he easi yamdgumated, as. 1 here appeals to be none or hut veiy little interfering stuff such as pyrites in the st**ne.’’ The local direc tors have not yet completed arrangements •for a 'rial c.nshitig of s me 30 or 4d tons of e'one at Bennett’s Conroy Mill, but they arc in treaty f-r so doing, and we think now it would he ihe wisest possible thing they could do.