COROMANDEL.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 8 November 1871, Page 3

COROMANDEL.

(from OUII own correspondent.) November 6th, 1871. The New Zealand Company’s battery still continues crushing for the Tokatea G.M.C., and the. result for the past week is seventy-eight pounds of amalgam. The Whakaroa completed a lot from the same Company on Saturday last, and the return is 1540 z of retorted gold from the 09 tons put through. This battery commenced to day on fifty tons from the Masonic, of the results of which I trust to send a favorable report. The Nil Dcsperaudum will not have finished crushing for the Royal Oak before Wednesday newt. The amalgam oil' the plates only, from the thirty tons of general stuff already put through, was weighed whilst I was at the battery this morning, and resulted in About fifteen tons of average stuff and three hundred weight of specimens have still to be operated on, so that an excellent yield may be expected. The Golden Pah’s drive is now in about two hundred and eighty feet, and, from the indications perceived, the manager expects to strike the reef at any moment. The Neptune has now a trial lot of three tons awaiting crushing at the Nil Desperandmn Battery ; and the manager intends sinking a winze upon the surface leader, from which this lot was taken, until he reaches the drive iu the lower level.

The Triton, the newest claim adjoining the Neptune, had a meeting of shareholders on Friday last, when directors were chosen, and a legal manager (Mr Mackay) appointed. The Venus’ will occupy the Nil Desperandum, with fifteen tons of stuff from the No. 3 leader, as soon as that battery is disengaged, forty tons more are held in reserve. The Murphy’s Hill Gold Mining Company, have called for tenders for a tunnel of one hundred feet. The Pacifiers drive is now nearly one hundred and forty feet in, and requires only ten more to complete the present contract, when a new one for another hundred will be called for, and persevered with if necessary, until tho hill is cut through. Two good leaders have been met with, one two feet thick, and the other likely to be thicker ; it is not yet cut through, and looks well.