RICHMOND HILL SILVER MINE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 192, 4 August 1876, Page 2

RICHMOND HILL SILVER MINE.

The Lady Barkly has brought three days' later uews from the mine, and of a satisfactory character. The vein of ore struck in the drive is evidently a strong and improving one, besides being, what is of equal importance, of increasingly rich quality as it is driven upon, though probably not yet equal in this respect to the magnificent 600 ounce ore which was found in the deepest part of the outcrop that could be explored. Mr Masters, junior, who has attained a certain proficiency in assaying, has produced four buttons of silver, which are in the bands of the Directors, from as many samples out of the drive. Though the assay buttons do not supply exact information as to the per-centage of silver, they afford corroborative evideb.ce of the ore being truly argentiferous. We subjoin a letter received yesterday from a Cornish I

miner employed by the Company :— " You will wish to know what I think of the mine now. : I have the pleasure to inform you the ore is struck in the drive, ten feet from the drive; it was struck on Saturday last, and the mana-v ger despatched the news to Nelson on Sunday. The lode was then looking very well, but to-day we have been taking down the lode again, aud it is far richer for mineral than it was on Saturday last ; ; and. I believe by this day week that the ore will be as rich in quality as it is in the outcrop. As to the lode, in sinking the shaft, the . shaft we were sinking ia what miners call a horse, so that the lode is split up iv small branches in the shaft, aud when we commenced to drive, the horse began to die out aod the branches to ( come together and forth the lode in the drive; at present there are small leaders in the drive that will join the lode as. we continue on the drive further, and then you may expect to see the lode much larger in Bize ana 1 richer in .silver than what it is now. The lode is a strong-looking one at' present and improving every foot we go on with the drive." We hope shortly to present our readers with .a more connected account of the silver mine than has yet appeared in print.