MINING NEWS

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 162, 24 July 1886, Page 2

MINING NEWS

TE AROHA AND WAIORON GOMAL Battesies. — Firth and Clarke's : Returns for the month ending July 22ndi New Find 'lß3 trucks general dirtyieldetl, inclusive of tailings 2460z from surfacfe, (trial lot). 54 trucks 270z ; ,10. trucks low grade dirt crushed on " halves" by

Battery Company, Sos*. Total 51760z retorted gold from 247 trucks. Galena.— -19 trucks, 13oz retorted gold. x , " " | Colonist;' 28 trucks, 2Goz retorted gol-1. . . ' ' Wellington Claim,; (Buike and party) : 4 trucks, 7oa retorted gold. Total for month 32^oz. Tiie 10 trucks trial parcel from the Kew Find, taken alternately with 10 trucks sent to New Era battery, are now crushed and the clean up will take place to-day. The battery is now running as follows: 30 stampers New Find ; 5 Colomst ; 5 Galena. Tailings plant 16 berdans for New Find, balance for Battery Company. New Era. — The'clean up from the 10 trucks of New Find quartz (taken alternately with 10 trucks sent to Firth and Clarices battery) has takch place, but no information is to hand as to the probable yield. This parcel was partly furnnced, and part treated without furnacing. The manager,. Mr H. C. Wick, considers a large portion of the quartz he has seen on Waiorongomai gold field is unfit for roasting, and will yield better without it. Mr Wick contemplates still further alterations at this battery, whereby he hopes to make it much more suitable for the class of stone likely to be received for treatment.

New Find. — The new low level is now in a distance of 170 feet. The country has proved rather hard hitherto, but during the past week it has improved. Stoping operations are proceeding much as usual on the number one reef, north and south above low level, from which tfob'i average grudo dirt is coining to hand. Stoping is likewise proceeding on number two reef above number one level, and from here also, good quality dirt is being obtained. Quartz is "being broken out from the Werahiko run, in which some nice gold* is to be seen. From the surface of number one reef, a considerable amount of dirt is now being won, and though of poorer quality, it is nevertheless shaping for a payable yield.

Waiorongomai. — Some 10 trucks from this mine have been this week treated at Firth and Clavkcs battery, but retortiug has not yefc taken place. There is nothing fresh to report from the mine.

Champion Lodes, Tui. — The shareholders in these claims are busily engaged in sledging down quartz from the boundary of Nos. 2 and 3 claims, which is being landed on the station grounds, for transmission to Auckland for shipment home.