VICTORIAN MINING.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 723, 6 September 1870, Page 4

VICTORIAN MINING.

[MELBOURNE LEADER, AUG. 20. J " On the 9th inst.,"says the Advertiser, "C Hones came into Inglewood for the purpose of applying for a prospecting claim situated in a gully about 300 yards south from his half-way house, Kingower road. The prospect obtained was a nugget weighing 3£oz, and half-a-penny- . weight, of line gold off the bottom, .of a hole. The sinking is from two to seven feet. On the llth instant, Christopher Myers and Francesco Braeesc? applied to register a prospecting claim at Murphy's ; Flat, one mile '&nd a half south of Kingower. . Sinking from 12ft to 13ft ; bottom, hard slate, with from six to seven inches of washdirt, composed of small quartz stones and iron boulders. Prospect, ldwt of fine gold, and a nugget weighing 9dwt off the bottom." A correspondent writing from Johnstown to the Inglewood Advertiser on the Bth August says: — "Some nice nuggets have been turned up during the last few days in the road claims, outside Johns' fence. On Wednesday Lidster and mate got another fine nugget weighihg 7io?. The same day, in the next claim, Wright and party got two nuggets, one 40oz, and and the other a over 4oz. On Thursday, in Caltb's.'grotind; about two claims south, of these road claims, Griffith and mates got a splendid piece weighing 81oz ; arid on Saturday, Seagrave. and Tyler got a 760z nugget in their road claim next to Mr Lidster's. The whole

of these nuggets were got on the surface. Some of the Chinamen in Johns' paddock are still doing very well. One party to-day got a 7"z piece ; but there is very little work going on at present in the sinking, owing to the flood." Information wa? received at Dnnolly on Monday, says the Express, that the Cambrian Company, Llanelly, had struck splendid stone in the lower level. The stone looks quite as good, if not better, than any that has been discovered in the claim. The Gipps Lend Times reports that the escort which arrived in Sale on the sth iust., brought down 6020z of gold, 4170z of which are the yield of the Good Hope Company's mine, being the principal portion crushed for the month. The balance is from claims on the river. The Mail reports that "some quartz rich in gold was struck in the Town Reef, at Castlemaine, early on Monday morning in the ground that had been wrought about four years ago, and which is again struck in a fresh place. In some of the specimens large pieces of gold stud the surface of the grey stones, in others fine gold in minute particles mixed with chocolate-colored earth or permeates through the stone, appearing thickly on the upper and lower sides. It is impossible to conjecture what the yield may be from a quantity, nor are any estimates that judge the bulk to be of equal richness to the specimens, of any value. The gold is to be soon retorted. The lead is 30ft below the water level, at a depth of 160 ft. From the same reef the tributors in the main southern shaft are obtaining stone that gives them sanguine hopes as to its gold-bearing quality, so that the prospects taken throughout are highly encouraging."