COROMANDEL.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 134, 14 March 1872, Page 3

COROMANDEL.

I mentioned in my last that the Green Harp had struck a line patch of specimens. They were very rich and heavy, but on Thursday they got, some still better, and to-day they have been taking out blocks of 40, 50, and GO lbs. weight, full of gold. The winze from which the stone is taken is down nearly thirty feet, and the reef is vertical, with the wall on cither side clear and well-defined. The reef is widening as it descends, and is now two feet six inches wide, and a broad hand of gold can bo seen all along the floor of the winze. The stone is exceedingly rich, and will give a very heavy return under the stampers. The mine has been visited by great numbers of people, who can see these extraordinary stones as they come up the winze. This reef has now been proved from the bottom of this winze to the floor of the drive, 30 feet ; from the lower to the upper level, 25 feet ; and from the upper level to the surface of the ground, 50 feet ; and the upper level has been driven along a distance of upwards of 300 feet, ami gold all the way. This is a good criterion of the value of this claim.

On the landward side of the Green Harp is the John Bull, almost peg and nog ; and I do not see how they can miss getting this reef in some part of their ground. I have already described the reef cut in the low level of this claim, and which the shareholders believe to be the Golden Ilarp. Tenders are called to sink a shaft 100 feet deep, and this, when completed, will test the matter. The men arc kovl sinking a winze on a small leader in the old surface drive, and will prospect it to a depth of about 30 feet. Gold lia.s been seen in the stone, and it is not unlikely to improve as it descends. The Neptune tunnel is being pushed ahead, and the manager daily expects to cut the reef. In the upper level stone is being taken out and pnddocked, ready for crushing as soon as machinery is erected on the bench. The Tokatea stuff is improving again, and last night, about otic hundred pounds of first-class specimens were taken from the stopcs. The low tunnel is being pushed ahead as fast as the hard nature of the ground will permit. I understand that crushing will be resumed some time next week.

The Pride of Tokatea arc still getting out some first-rate stone. The winze is now down 57 feet from the Rainbow drive level, and the gold has been carried down the whole way. The prospects of this mine were never belter than at the present moment. A meeting of the directors of the Working Miners was held last evening to appoint a new mine-manager. From a numerous list of applicants, Mr Joseph Parkcs, late manager of the Golden Harp, was selected, and there is no doubt but that under bis management flic Working Minors ground will be well and thoroughly worked.

A case of assault on Mr Doyle, the landlord of the Ballarat Hotel, was to have been heard at the Resident .Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, but tbe matter was arranged outside. P.S.—The Goleonda have just crushed sixty pounds of the stone taken out yesterday at the New Zealand one-slamper, and the yield is 84oz. of gold. --Cross.

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