MINING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 491, 23 July 1890, Page 5

MINING NEWS.

Thames, July 19. Big Bump. —Tenders were opened yesterday for repairs to the chimney stack, in the first place for labour and all material, including ironwork, and secondly for labour and materials excepting ironwork. They were as follows:—Joseph Buckley, £55 10s and £34 ; George Ginn, £BO and £6l 10s ; and G. Henderson, £9B 18s and £6O 18s. The tenders were last evening forwarded to the members of the Drainage Board in Auckland.

Dives.— There are 1391 b of picked stone on hand. Crushing is still proceeding. Caledonian. —There are thirty loads of quartz to grass, and crushing will be commenced next week. Try Fluke.—The reef in the south end is fully five feet, the quartz being equally as good in the floor as in the top of the face. There are about 300 oz of hard squeezed amalgam now on hand. Nemesis. —Two men have started to drive a crosscut from tho northern side of tho spur. This should cut all the reefs at about 50 feet deep, when something good should be met with.

Adeline Amalgamated. —The crushing should be finished by the end of the week. At present there are 300 oz of cold-water squeezed amalgam on hand, and this is nearly all from first-class dirt. Golden Gate. —No. 1 reef has been cut; it is one foot thick, and prospects fairly well. No. 2 reef is nine inches thick and prospects well.

Orlando. —A reef 2 feet 6 inches has been cut by the contractors aiter driving 54 feet. It appears to be standing vertical. The quartz is friable, and heavily charged with copper minerals, mixed with colours of gold. Royal Oak (Coromandel). —The mine manager reports : At the junction of the cross reef, driving east, there was some stone obtained showing coarse gold. Today there were 61b of specimens got, leaving gold in the floor also going ahead. Stoping on No. 1 reef. No gold seen, although the reef looked well in places. A large portion of tho reef is now stripped, and will be taken down to-morrow. West portion of the mine there is about ten feet more to drive to cub the Rainbow reef. The tributers are getting out crushing stuff, no picked stone. In the newly-acquired ground the tributers have made a start with fair pro.-pects from a small lead, showing blotches in the atone.— Peter Reid,