MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3882, 3 August 1875, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

{From our Exchanges.) Prospecting is being vigorously proceeded with at Bendigo, and several auriferous leaden are reported to have been discovered ; but nothing further than fair prospects have been obtained. ' The Blackstone Hill Prospecting Assooia* tion is now sinking. The quarts on the surface was about 2in. thick, and gold is visible. The shaft is down IBft., and the lode has increased in width to 6in., with promising indications. . A miner from Macetown states that he has discovered a ma n lode of quartz in that neigh* borhood, running four miles, from 4ft. to 9ft, thick, and yielding good prospects. The mining interest at Arthur’s Point is as lively as ever. One proprietor lately refused LIOO for permission to mine under four acres of his freehold. A party is leaving to trace the old course of the Shotover above the Arthur’s Point Gorge, and if that can be done for any distance a new life will be infused into alluvial mining. Unfortunately, if it run into Miller’s Flat, the land there is all lease or freehold. This agricultural leasing on the goldfields seems to have been carried out with* out much consideration for the future of gold* mining. The Sons ef Fortune tunnel is advancing, and shareholders are very hopeful from present appearances. Advices from Skippers speak of more bill, linnt returns than ever from the Phoenix claim. The stone is described as magnificent, and will co twenty or thirty ounces to the ton. The tunnel in which it was struck runs alongside the reef for a long distance, and was driven in a kind of false reef by contract; so little pains had been taken to get gold, only to run out the softest stuff to be found. Now the reef can be stoped out from this tunnel so readily that each pick can get two tons daily for an immense time to come. In some places the cap-pieces in the hanging wall are in the golden atone, while the tunnel itself was in the poorest, Thu

tributer* complain of tbc delay shown by Mr Bullet’• manager in not completing the flaming and pipes leading water to the turbine, which will postpone their spring crushing. It was Sart of the bargain that the work was to be pne fer them, while they voluntarily offered to give a week s work of their party of eight towards it. r ihe tributers have dropped in for a splendid thing. They have 300 tons of stone out.

Quartz reefs on the brain,” ia now a byeword in _ Arrowtown, and it is a pity that this mania did not seize the people of the district long ago, as it is sure to be amended with good results. The Crown Terrace reef is showing well, and shares which a week or two ago cost but LI, cannot now be bought under LlO to Lls. Specimens have been crushed with a pestle and mortar and have turned out well, for out of stone in which no gold can be seen with the naked eye good prospects have been obtained.

Mining operations are being pushed on vigorously at the Blue Spur, both ia the sluicing and tunnelling claims; and the Escort returns are how likely to show an increase.