THE DUNEDIN QUARTZ MINE.
{To the Editor.) Slr,—The Green Island correspondent of the Daily Times may be au authority upon agricultural matters but he knows very little about mining. In his last letter to that journal, he sa.s he will not estimate the quantity of quartz brought to the surface from the Dunedin Company’s mine for fear that it might he considered a “miserable puff, ” We, the undersigned, as quartz miners of experience who hav-e been working the mine really believe the aforesaid correspondent to be a miserable puff and possessing no knowledge of mining, for as to the ground collapsing and the reef having been lost, we have to slate tfoal, we never saw ground
better secured, for the contractor had to take out the old timber that was in the mine, which was not within two feet of the foot wall, and replace it properly for the safety of the workmen, before they could raise the stone. — We are, &c., Quartz Miners.
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Evening Star, Issue 3047, 23 November 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)
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164THE DUNEDIN QUARTZ MINE. Evening Star, Issue 3047, 23 November 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)
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