Mining News.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 381, 29 June 1889, Page 2

Mining News.

WAIORONGOMAI. , T,e AroWfr ,and G.^ ,M. Co : The first general clean up of the Boss .pan plant, and berdansj.since .they; stinted ,tp w t 9ilv regularly,' took .place this week. The

result, will- not be made public iKere- at :: < «'-.%,. «,pres^ff|J^being forwarded head officioE the Compan^Mllb||r&%?' l}^ Mi' .Howell, the Corhpariy's^Sup^rintenr 'dehtjlioweverjinfQi'ms us thatthe % resirt/'; , was, very satisfactory,; The lo_w e >*» or tailings'plant furnace, is nbw working well, no further trouble beingexperienced with respect to the Mcks shiftmgSi ice ' the last new ones were^put^in. »The furnace was started on Tuesday ctilbrodysmg new base, or© tailings, from New Find quartz. It is intended td" keep this furnace so-employed for some time to come. The Boss pan plant, and also the 18 herd sins being used, are all now treating - chlorodysed. base ore i tailings. , ? ( / At the Battery 30 head "of stampers (with concentrator) are kept steadily at " work : 20 on base ore from New; Find, and 10 on free milling ore from same. In the mines work is' progressing mucli as usual. A number of hands are employed in the erection of the nevr 20 head.of stampers, which work is progressing satisfactorily. They are being erected "on quite » different plan from that adopted with respect to the old 40 head. The circular saw is kept going, cutting up kauri to the siaes required. The hands employed in prospecting^ new ground, are now engaged trenching and following up a reef that hot no visible outcrop, running from the Waitawheta creek towards the main reef, the junction' with which it is desired to ascertain. The work at present progresses slowly, there being about 20 feet of surface to cut through. The work is ,no-w being „ oarried on in the Day Dawn claim. The . * very wet weather of late has considerably retarded the progress of this work. ' '••■ >