THE CARRICK REEFS

Evening Star, Issue 3839, 14 June 1875, Page 3

THE CARRICK REEFS

Viator,” Iho ‘ Argus’s ’ mining contributor, furnishes to that journal an account of a recent visit he paid to the Star of the East claim. He says that the stoni now being crushed Is likely to yield from two to three and a-half ounces per ton. The main level is in 530 ft, and is so perfectly straight that daylight can be seen from the farthest end. The reef now being worked is about twenty inches wide, and has a very considerable underlie to the east. The stone is very clean, and tolerably free from arsenical pyrites, although iron abounds in oxides. The last crushing of 220 tons gave 260 ounces, the greater Dart of which came from 60 tons from the “make” lately discovered. Some of Mr Ulrich’s “dropwells ” were placed at the end of a flume which carries all the tailings from the batteries, and when cleaned up the result was a quarter of a grain (!) per ton for the last two crushings. Seeing that Mr Ulrich’s fiat was that the loss generally was equal to the actual yield at our batteries, this trial of his plan for the prevention of such loss does not say much for his practical knowledge of amalgamation, whatever his capabilities as a geologist may be. J

Mr Thomas Baird brought into Cromwell on Thursday from the Cromwell Company, Bendigo, another cako of gold weighing 840oz’ from 209 tons of stone. The main shaft is now over 300 ft deep.