Broken Hill.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 5 January 1892, Page 2

Broken Hill.

Quite recently, with a view to lessening the enormous pressure on the timbering of the Broken Hill mine, says a contemporary, ifc was - determined to open the whole of the upper faces of the hill and remove the top weight by quarrying, This has been done in part, as it was calculated that the timber, which would be taken out of the higher levels, would alone repay the cost of such removal. The first bluff waß removed, and the stuff, instead of proving to be almost worthless as was anticipated, was found to contain large masses of valuable manganic fluxing ironstone, and also silicious iron ore. This peculiarly embedded material is found to contain much more silver and lead than the ore coming direct from that part of the lode itself. It is not only a valuable fluxing material containing a high percentage of manganese and iron, but much of it is almost equal in silver to the average ore. The value of timber already recovered has been enough to pay for the quarrying, and the ore has cost the company nothing, and will pay a handsome profit over and above cost of working, if it can be economically V treated. The Dr Schnabel ; ref#edj| to in the following extract from %elB Au tralasian seems, by the cable news, to have been successful. Any ore containing 12s worth of silver tgjp: to the ton being able to be dealt^ profitably with. The Australasian of December has a special report on the subject, and the reporter goes on to say:— "The ore bodies exposed are more extensive than they were at any period of the mine's history, and there is now no difficulty in j maintaining the regular output, or keeping up the reserves. Dr Schna- . | Bel has recently arrived from Germany to endeavour to to treat the :, sulphide ores, and the result of his operations is watched and awaited with the Interest attached to the performance of a magician, which he is not, but if he only demonstrates the practicability of working the „ sulphides at a profit, he will have earned the gratitude and a good deal ;i . of the cash of the mining world of Australia."