MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 803, 1 December 1865, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE .

Mr Warden Simpson reports that a party of miners while sluicing the terrace underneath the old Camp at Maori Point, have laid bare what appears to be a quartz reef, at least Mr Mining Surveyor Knight and others have expressed their opinion that it is a reef, and the men on whose ground it crops out have resolved to drive in to prove it. The fact of the terrace having been very rich, and the gold of that character known as reef gold, very much mixed with quartz, certainly leads, to the probability of a quartz reef existing tliex-e. The crushing for the month by the Scandinavian Company is likely to turn out far beyond expectation ; last week, __ after crushing about 20 tons of stone, they took from the Hippie table alone about 130 ounces of gold. We learn from the WaJcatir> Nail that the property of the quartz reefing and sluicing companies in the Lake district is very assuring. It says : —“ The greatest success we have to report is the crushing of the Scandinavian Company, Skipper’s, whose mathinery, though rough, is hard at work. It may be styled a most primitive affair, in many respects, and consists of four heads worked by water-power. Since the last crushing, reported the other day in our columns, over 100 ounces of amalgam have been lifted, withoxit stopping the machine or clearing the stamp-boxes, plates, &c. The monthly yield, by order of the Warden’s Court, will be made known on 7th December ensuing, and is expected to amount to about 400 ounces. The stone is crushed as it comes to hand. Other quartz claims are active, but not crushing, owing to want of machinery. In another direction, towards the Shotover, we hear the Vulcan and Ballarat claims are about to proceed to work vigorously. The latter go to Ballarat, we believe, with their scheme. The Vulcan are awaiting their lease. Adjoining ground has been applied for and is surveyed. The reef a-head of this for a mile is yet to be seen cropping out. A road for transpox-ting machinery is much required. The sluicing claims are vigorous, and on all hands satisfactory accounts reach üb,” - !