Good News from the Thames.
IVALtTABDE MINING DI&COTOp
\ (BY TELEiCJRAPH.) ■• • ' ■ '; (Posi Correspondent.) ..:,,'.',„.^.. "..'.' . Thames,, Frid»yi r| ! The Northern goldfield8 T ,,wlji,ch..-,h;ave: lately experienced serious depression, show signs of general revival, which bids fair to be the. more permanent from the fafct that it' arises largely frbni the tliscovei'ies f ttiaxl'e of. hitherto unkhdwritnindrals. For this the miners are deep iy indebted, to^ inßtruc'tisaj.feceiyed I'roin ". Professor Black. In the Karangahake (listrict, Ohinemuri ores were treated last week . ,froiri /the Adeline [n^jrie -itiji [& yield of silver and gojd. m obtaimd totho valiie of £95"i0s per ton, ana to-day an assay was made from ore from .the 'Woodstock mihewbicfi' proved to be worth 4-60 per~ton. In this m Btance the return of silver averaged 230r, 6z per. ton. Tlie prospectors wqrking' : atj Tui Greek, near 'fe. Arqlia,- have un-' earthed, large lodes' comprising' silver ore worth from' : _J69'to'fi2l,, ri per'tp<i. 'i'in i th'e Baine''vieitiity' a vaiu&ble bdHy-of^cafbd^" nato of lead, estimated to fetch j£B per ton, has also been brought- to : light. Again,. at \7aiki, where only quartz of the lowest, grade, has. 'hitherto .been kno.wn, speciimehs. were found last \ye.ek yielding 13d wts of; geld per lb'. TKei figtirei quoted above are the' actual re^' turns from considerable parcels, 1 ' as distinguished from -more experimental assay 8.: Smelting :operation3 will be. rer burned to-morrow at the I/a Monte fur-, pace on the Thames foreshore, where 220 tons of ore from various, sources are ; awaiting treatment! " .; : J '' '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1651, 6 March 1886, Page 2
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243Good News from the Thames. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1651, 6 March 1886, Page 2
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