MINING NEWS. (From fhe " Coromandel Mail.")

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 January 1884, Page 3

MINING NEWS. (From fhe " Coromandel Mail.")

New Colonial.— Getting out good stuff' fiom a small leader. Have not yet been able to get the use of the road for sledging quartz down. Just-in-Time.— Have opened out, and are driving north from the winze. A nice leader is in hand, but little gold. The rise is not yet up to the surface. Matawai. — There is an enormous body of reef in the face of the surface workings. About twenty feet along its course has been cut away. It carried gold all the way. The reef is six feet thick, and some sixteen feet high at the face. Good picked stone has been got in various places all over it. There is a good deal of mullock through it, but nearly all is saved from the crushing, and averages over two ounces per ton, without specimens. There are about twenty tons of quartz in the paddock and sixty pounds of specimens on hand. Good rich prospects have been obtained along the outcrop, forty feet beyond the face, proving a large shot of gold. The level is nearly under the upper workings. The reef looks first rate. Gold may be got any minute. Tokatea.— The manager reports :— The country in the main level is still very hard. I have just passed through a email leader supposed to be identical with a leader cut on the footwall of the big reef, On the surface it has the same strike and dip. I have three stopes going in from main level, one each way, irom No. 1 winze, and another from No. 4, but the quartz is not worth saving at present. The ground is very easily worked. Tributer Knoxs party in prospecting lower down on their block last week, got about 12 pounds of picked stone, but nothing since. W. Dick is ! prospecting the All Nations reef from the old surface drive. ( Union Beach. — The manager reports a first-class reef in the face of the drive on the Venus reef. The country is very good indeed, rather tight, but , good for gold. Getting good general stuff from the stope in the winze. Daniel's leader : the drive on the Black reef , looks first rate, but they have not reached the junction yet. Success.— The manager reports getting good coarse gold in the stone while opening out aij the foot of the rise, The leader looks well, v but nothing rich at present. United,— The manager reports sinking the, winze over twenty feet. There is a> nice reef at bottom, showing good payable j gpld, . The country appearg to improve as lit goes $ own v , „, . ... „..!•