WAIHI SILVERTON.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1768, 7 September 1895, Page 2

WAIHI SILVERTON.

The following notice -regarding the above mine was posted at the exchange on Wednesday afternoon: WaihiSilverton: The following” ha* been cabled to London—“ The hd• is being driven upon in a south-east direction from the cross-cut upon the hangingwall, the average value of the quartz for the whole width of the drive for the 30 feet driven being £l4 per ton.

REPORTED GOLD FIND AT WHANGAREI What appears to be a very important. discoveiy of gold is e "td from Whangarei, says the Her aid. Fo nearly two years pas* - reports of gold being found sin the L li opposite Whangare*, known asParihak : T have been current. The mountain, which lies immediately alongside Whangare i, is about 900 feet high, and about throe miles long and two wide. It is form, dofa so t porphery, and inij. h be cal,lt d cement. It is.quite friable, and can be reduced to a powder in the hand. It has been termed tufa and rhyolite by Mr Park, of the Thames School of Mines, and Mr Gordon, Government Mining Engineer, both of whom have stated tnat gold cannot occur in such a formation. 1 However, we are informed by Mr (J. E. Alderton. that it has now boon demonstrated that, gold does occur there, and that out of every twenty samples ! taken at random, fifteen will give gold. The returns generally are very poor, not exceeding 8s to 10s a ton, - but ; assays up to £4 and £6 per ton have i been obtained. Twenty samples sent to America yielded 8s per ton. These 1 samples were merely taken from the surface at different points. There are no leaders, lodes, nor reefs rn this, peculiar formation. It is merely a mountain of u cement.” Recently, to prove the matter.in a more definite manner, Mr Alcierton got Messrs H. R. Holmar and Geo. Kerr, two experienced miners, to put up a sluice; with copper plates, to ascertain | whether the ore could be concentrated and whether the gold occurred nr a free state, and could be saved on copper plates. The result was quite surprising. After putting less than two tons of stuff over the sluice, the concentrated tailings assayed 2oz 2dwfc gold! per ton. Subsequently about a ton more was put through, and s copper plate (12 inches square) with memrry saved a nice lump of amalgam,, from which a large head of gold was retorted. We are informed that Mr Sherreiff Galbraith, the. weUrknown assayer, of Auckland, has already obtained the refusal of 100 acres of the 1 land for Home peop’e, the terras being £IOO cash «n4IOOO paid-up £1 shares. The finding of gold in this formation

is proving an enigma to onr n.i ueralogists. It dissolves into the finest powder on being "mixed with water. The “ cement ” is on view at the office of Messrs Morris and Edwards, Bank of New Zealand, The first claim taken up has been named * The Crest of the North.’ PROSPECTING TRACK. Mr George Vesey Stewart has informed the Tauraiiga County Council that arrangements have been made with Mr R. C. Jordan, of Tauranga, to to make the necessary survey of the Katikati - Karangaliake. prospecting track, with a view to commencing operations as soon as the weather per mitsi He also stated that he had no doubt that any balance required to complete the track to its destination would he obtained from the Government. Regarding the propoal to op' n 1 up the baok country by 11 e us of prospecting tracks, Mr Kelly, M.H.R., at

the request of the Ohinemuri County Council, has placed before the Minister of Mines the necessity of the Government. granting £2OO towards the formation of a prospecting track from the termination of the present Karangahake Hill track to the nearest, point at the Tui Creek Track. This of course will go over the intervening country between Karangahake and Te Aroha.