WAIORONGOMAI. MINING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 221, 24 September 1887, Page 2

W AIO R O NGO M A I.

MINING NEWS.

There is no news of importance t record regarding the progress of work in anj of the mines in this uUtriefc. Both with respect to tin New Fin i and Colonial the quartz being treated at tho buttery picmises to give a better return than of late, ami judging by the stone now being broken out from both these mines* there is reason to hope the improvement will continue T.ie revolving furnace is kept sten lily going night and day, is working very binoothly, and although actual results h.ivi 1 iK'tyot been made known, theie is we believe every reason to believe that it will prove the right thing in the right place, and bo found to the me. ms of a greatly increased per cinlago of the pivcioin metals being obtained irom our refractoiy oies, The eltctiic liLjht is '_;i\m; gieat •ithl will \ cry shoilly "-upi'iM-de the old system of hi^hiin^ in the b.itteiy ako. Failing pits ,110 now bci \<; conilructe I in the spue fornerly occupied by beiduns in the b.Ufci v huiise.

WAI 10 A. Wty great interest is beiiu felt \wth respect to the ducowi v of aunt'eioudeposit, in this district, an 1 which th.oii^h the eneury and pciscvcr nice o' .Mr J. B. Smith has been hi ought so prominently before the public of late. Simples of iho deposit from Mr Smiths an 1 other pioperties in the district arc being subj-vti il to all manner of le-t-an 1 ttontnienl, wliicu it l«. to be hopeii will leal ii]) to the thoronijli developoment of t!ie new lie! 1. There is cveiy reason fohope that a ciuvip an 1 etT-ctno mound for tienlipg 1 this deposit on a lar^e scale will very shortly be de\i-.eil, n^ the supply of theilejioMt is practically inexhaustible, and i^ so easily obtainable, an 1 so easy of reduction, that the presence of a very small average, per centre indeed of the precious metals should admit jf its being profitably worked. The re^ull. of (mat ing larger parcels thun have yet 'been dealt with will bo awaited with veiy gieat interest indeed.