EXHIBITS FROM THAMES GOLD FIELDS. Thames, Nov. 8.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 419, 13 November 1889, Page 5

EXHIBITS FROM THAMES GOLD FIELDS. Thames, Nov. 8.

Tiik following ia a complete list of the mineral exhibits forwarded to the Dunedin Exhibition by Mr J. Park, F.G.S., director of the School of Mines, from the Thames, including ores of gold, silver, lead, zinc, etc., from Te Aroha, Karangahake, Marototo, and Tararu. These form a line collection of mineralised ores, and should attract considerable attention at the Exhibition :—: — 1. Champion mine, Te Aroha, carbonate of lead. I Ins ore occurs in considerable quantities on the back ot the main lode. It ia a valuable flux for silver ores. 2. Champion mine, Te Aroha, gold and silver ore. From lower levels ; value £17 10 £25 per ton. 3. Champion mine, Te Aroha, gold and silver ore. From upper levels ; value £8 to £15 per ton. 4. Champion mine, Te Aroha, zinc blende and galena. Occurs in large quantities in upper levels, mixed with galena ; contains 35 per cent zinc. 5. Champion mine, Te Aroha, galena. Occurs m Jarge pockets on footwall of main lode ; contains 77 per cent, lead, and 6\oz silver to ton 6. Champion mine, Te Aroha, cinnabar on quartz. Occurs in upper levels, associated with, blende and silver ore. 7. Sylvia Gold Mining Syndicate, Tararu Creek, Ihames, galena and silver glance. Occurs as thin irregular shoots and bunches or quartz lode ; contains 45 to 55 per cent lead • gold, 13oz. to 370z. ; silver, 750z. to 1420z. Value of bullion, from £69 to £180 per ton. 8. Sylvia Gold Mining Syndicate, Tararu Creek, Thames, gafena blende and copper pyrites from mineralised lode. Contains goJd from soz. to 430z. ; silver, 6oz. to 260z. per ton Value ot bullion par ton, from £25 to £181 9. Kenilworth mine, Karangahake, gold and silver ore. The reef averages three feet in thickness. Value, £25 per ton. 10. lvanhoe mino, Karangahake, gold and silver ore. From No. 2 reel:, averaging three feet thicif. The ore varies from £15 to £25 per ton. 11. Marototo mine, Hikutaia, silver ore with gold. Complex ore, silver sulphide, chloride bromide, iodide, silenite, tellurite; contains from 200oz to 6,C000z silver, and 2oz to 70oz«old per ton. 12. Same as No. 11, 13. Crown mine, Karangahake, gold and silver ore. From No. 1 reef, very rich? in silver and rf old ; gold 710z., silver 812oz. per ton. Value, £405 per ton. 14. Crown mine, Karangahake, gold and silver ore. From No, 2 reef, very rich in silver and gold. 15. E. R. Edwards. Thames, red hematite paint. Trade parcel, lewt. each. 16. Same as No. 15. I 7I 7 - K -K- -Edwards, Th ames, green metallic paint. Trade parcel, lewt. each; 18. E. R. Edwards, Thames, red and green metallic paint. Sample parcel. 19. E. R. Edwards, Thames, oak paint and hematite ore. Simple parcel. 20. E. R. Edwards, Thames, sundries, etc Contains certificates and awards. 21. E. R. Edwards, Thames, 4 tins, 141b each green paint ground in oil. '

Duxbdin", Nov. 8. While the Mararoa is in Melbourne an excursion will be made round Port Phillip Harbour, and luncheon given on board to some eight hundred representative men from the Australian colonies who are expected to pay this colony a visit durinothe Exhibition period. Mr D. Mills left for Melbourne by the Mararoa to-day, to represent the Union S.S. Company on thato occasion.