MINING NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 161, 28 September 1927, Page 3

MINING NEWS

MFW RIVER GOLD DREDGING rolvfpANY —The dredgemaster reports: The New River dredge operating at Dub-j-inville near Greymouth, cleaned up £ lold in 110 hours during the week , nst The dredgemaster ads?sls '’tha£ a |*iat improvement in the value of the wash has oceurred^urmg th Sm he f states* that the mats show an improvement as compared 1 with last week. f AI-BUB T N h '/'--lEr^rc r u t r S rt See^ extended Trot i 379 feet to 309 feet through \ splendid class of country rock. The leaders mentioned in my wire of the inst were met at a point 300 lee °4 f to 1 T would recommend driving with the obKaS, St i°n^ n rfn, h d!ate be ?e n ver n as "'th!, thus engaged were timbering niac’np ladders In position and cleaning placing la mullock. As we have obtained a few pounds of stone showing strong gofd and as the reef here has all the indications of carrying good values, we will resume work sloping by about Wednesday or Thursday next, by which I time we hope to have the dead work ym® we also propose to clean out the fntermediate le°veTto the old face, which according to plan, is approximately 20 feetnorth c-f where we holed through. Tn'tave con ? us:on with the intermediate eve Is they will in future be known as 1 and NO 2. The one driven by the nmniivat a point 40 feet over the Norwegian Level will be called No. 1 and that driven by the previous company some 40 feet further overhead will be 1 known as No. 2.