COROMANDEL. ENCOURAGING REPORTS. Coromandel, Nov. 8.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 315, 10 November 1888, Page 4

COROMANDEL. ENCOURAGING REPORTS. Coromandel, Nov. 8.

There i 3 an improvement in mining matters generally. The English. Company who purchased the old Colonial Comstock and other mines have just put through some four tons of stufl, which has yielded between 50 and 60ozs to the ton. Wells 's tribu te in the Ha rbourView is doing well. A stone weighing 61bs, taken from the leader last week, has been crushed, the result being 24050s of gold. Wells is now experimenting on some four tons of stuff taken from the upper workings. Should it prove payable, the tribu ters have a large quantity of the saino stono on hand. There is every prospect of a grand future for the Royal Oak. The mine manager reports under date November sth: "Very little of the reef ha& oeen broken down since last report, owing to the rise being timbered up. The reef is getting much larger and well - defined throughout, carrying good walls. From what has been broken down lately there seems to be a change in the character of gold coming in, which is rich-looking and more solid in the stone. From present ap- , pearances the run is extending in length. From where the tributers had the run of gold is about 30 feet to tho west of our present run, and the quartz shows a different quality of gold. When the rise is connected it will open up a large block of new ground to be stoped, as there are two separate runs of gold, promising well for the future ot the mine. I have 1 ton of general stuff and 1601bs of specimens on hand." On Monday evening the manager reported :-— " Since my report was sent in picked stono has been met with at the east end of the rise on another cross lead."

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