MINING.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 86, 18 January 1872, Page 3

MINING.

AlburniA. —The crushing for tlietributers was finished yesterday at AVoston’s machine, and the amalgam retorted. 72 tons were treated to a return of 102 oz. of gold. A cleaning up on company’s account, was also accomplished at the Herald battery, after 75 tons bad been put through. The amalgam, which weighed 4050z5., will be retorted to-day.

Christchurch. —A trial crushing of one ton of stone, taken from tbe reef recently struck in the low level tunnel, which was driven from Wiseman’s Gully, is in progress at Clarkson’s machine, and bids fair to realise 2ozs of gold.

15 en D i GO I xdepex i > kx t. — Th c tri buters have another large paddock of stone ready for the mill—oo or 100 tons, —but crushing it will not he commenced for a week or two. Alticli of the stone was taken out of the winze which iias been sunk to meet No. 2 level, and the remainder came from the last block of the surface level, which is now exhausted. Connection between the No. 2 level and the winze will be established in a few days, and then employment on a largo scale will be resumed. The mine is certainly in first-class condition and promises years of profitable work to the company, containing as it docs both of the El Dorado leaders, neither of which have been much more than just opened out and prospected, whilst both have been tested 50 feet below the No. 2 level, and proved payable. El Dorado. —This mine is being opened out ns the one bundled and twenty feet level on the main lode, which has been formed by the coming together of the two leaders that were separately worked in the higher levels, and on the whole paid well. The lode is nearly three feet thick, and shows gold, and is inclined to slue to depart from its original N.E. and S.W. strike, by sluing to tbe northward in the direction of the old Papakura claim now part of the Ruby mine. Between ten and fifteen tons of stone from the lode are in the paddock.