OUR MINING EXHIBITS. A SPLENDID SHOW OF SPECIMENS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 297, 8 September 1888, Page 3

OUR MINING EXHIBITS. A SPLENDID SHOW OF SPECIMENS.

By the s.s. Kotnku there have come to hand from the goldtields a large number of mining exhibits for the Melbourne Exhibi" tion. The committee that had undertaken the faelf-imposed duty of seeing we are properly represented ab the Exhibition harm worked hard, and the lesult of their labours is very sat'sfacfcoiy. The exhibits have come ready packed, and are at piesenb located the greater quantity in (Jung's Yard, Forfc-hbreeb, the balance at the Railway Station and at the shed of the ss. Kotuku. They will all be shipped to Melbourne by the s.s. Manapouri which leaves at noon in Thursday. The exhibits comprise 42 boxes quartz specimens, from the lhames ; 5 boxes from MaroLoto ; 1 box, Wuitekauii : 14 boxes, Karangahake; 1 box, Whangamata ; 41 boxes, Te Aroha ; ] box cinebar from the Champion ; 1 box crystalline manganese Mom J'aiua Bay These have all arrived here and aie splendid specimens, very rich both in gold and .silver and well worthy of our goldtields. A quantity of exhibits are yet to come from (Joromandel, and as the steamer is due from there this evening they will most likely anive by hei. As showing the richness: ot the specimens we may detail the .six 'boxes that have been sent by the Waihi (J.M. Co.: One box No. 1 llosemonl blue ore, 781b, value £200 per ton ; 1 !»o\ No. Z Kosemont ore, 821b, value i,40 per ton ; 4 boxes Union ore, 4061b, value £4.0 per ton. In order to allow the public to see that the exhibits being sent over are such as any practical man would send, and not mere museum specimens, two or three lots are on view at the Chamber of Commerce. These comprise a splendid specimen of galena horn the Champion mine with a couple of bund ted weight ot gold and silver ore from the .same mine, all \ery rich specimens. Fiom the Kuakaka mine, which adjoins the Champion, i.s a splendid specimen weighing some loOlb. The mass shows a splendid vein of almost pure silver running through it. Gold and silver are both discernible in these oies, but the silver largely predominates. The>e S| ucimens will only be on view until to-moriow afternoon; ab they have to be shipped with the rest by the Manapouri on Thin bd ay, The specimens at Craigs yards were being unpacked to-day They are very rich, being taken trom the Tui Creek and the Champion. There is a large quantity of galena, and, what is even more valuable, some specimens of carbonate of lead frqm the Tui Reduction Special Claim, Te Aroha, Tins ore is more easily treated than the galena, and is correspondingly more valueable. The ore from the Champion mine in ihe yard is very rich, in fact, quite as. rich at the grand specimen in the Chamber of Commerce, and there is plenty of it. It has not been decided yec whether the ore will be brought back to Auckland or bent on to Adelaide. As the Government have undertaken co bring the specimens back again, most probably this course will be adopted.