MINING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 72, 18 October 1884, Page 2

MINING NEWS.

Battery. — The returns' of amalgam nd of gold for the week ending 11th list., wore as follows :—: — $ >\v Find — 93 truck*, 503 oz., tuilinira, 203 oz*., total 706 ozs nrn;ilgiiin (cold water) retorted, 98<>zs. 15dwt. Colonist — 41 trucks, 90ozs lOdwfo, amalgam (hot vater), no retorting. Canadian — 2 truck*, 160oj!. amalgim, (cold wut r) f toted, old, 24oz<i» 18dwts. Premier — T ilu gs 6<>ss-». uinHlgara New fc'iND. — A decided change for tie better has taken place ill tiieap|)O;tr- A ancft of tle reef in the north end of the low love . Tno. quurtz has lost its hard flinty nature r and has vow a most prunising look, for ? mid it ifl 'not/ unlikely that before many feet are driven payable ston«* will Rof'iin hp n\^t wi'h. A contract ha^ just been let for carrying #n tue bouuu cud oi tue ievei to t.ic

"Dhniond Gnlly boundary, and work in that, direction will h" at once r smneH. [?i tho winze beiti r snnk in tin Arizona \( % vA somcof the best stuff got in thr> mm • for a length of time h»s i»een obtaine I during the week. The reef is large, «•»'' the arold is well scattered through it. The blocks that are them beinj* opcsied np are likely to prove of great value. The, other parteof the mine are in yielding ato.ie of the usual grade. May Qukkn. — Tne exceeding satisfactory results that have attended the sinking of the two winzes, and tne prospects obtained on the line of the reef between there workings prove almost to a certainty the existence of a large extent of payable ground in this claim. Steps are now being taken foi its more thorough development, and a level will immediately be started whereby the lode can bo efficiently worked. , A 10-ton parcel of stuff hns jnst been crushed at the battery, nuri 2300bs of amalgam is now on hand. The blanketings have yet to be treated, and the retorting is ex pected to give gold equivalent to nearly four ounces per ton.