MINING.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 189, 17 May 1872, Page 3

MINING.

Unicorn Tribute. —The final crushing for the tributers of this company was completed yesterday at the Manukau Batteiy. Ten tons of stone were put through altogether, and the result was a good one, though nothing like as rich as the last. The amalgam retorted thirty ounces five pennyweights of gold. The tribute is now done, and the company themselves will work the lode for the future. The manager has already made arrangements for starting to sink a winze on it, for the purpose of opening out a block of ground. Nonpareil.— On 'Wednesday night and yesterday morning some very nice gold was come across in the workings of this mine. About forty or fifty pounds were taken out altogether, of which at least half was rich specimens, some of them most excellent. This find took place in the intermediate drive on th© lode from the pass, just below the forty feet level,and about fourteen feet further ahead than the last good specimens were found. In the lower level the manager has commenced to stope out the block, and he has now three stopes at work. He repoits that gold is to be seen in this part of the lode," but that nothing very rich has yet been found. He, however, does not expect this until he gels further ahead, and underneath where the good gold has been obtained He has not been able to start more than the ten head of stampers to work up to the present, as there were no trucks to be had on the tramway. This want has however now been remedied, and in a short time he hopes to have at least fifteen head at work. There was a brisk demand for shares on Wednesday night, but yesterday very little business was done, as it was found that the find had not been a very heavy one, and they gradually eased off in price, there being very little business done. \\hau.— With regard to this mine, we wish to correct an error which was made in onr report yesterday respecting the ground. We stated that they would have two hundred and fifty feet to drive from the end of the Black Angel to reach the Sons of Freedom reef. We should have said to reach the Whan reef, because the main adit of the Black Angel is in to the Sons of Freedom reef, and the Whan Company have driven along it tor a distance of two hundred and fifty feet into their own ground. They drove right through the centre of the lode, leaving the walls standing a great part of the way, and as the hanging wall of this lode has always proved the best, they are going to strip it down and crush it. A rise will also lie put up from the bed of the tunnel right to the surface, and the lode will be tested. They expect that the gold obtainable from this lode will pay all expenses connected with the tunnel they intend putting in, as it never went less than ten pennyweights to the ton, and having their own machine at the mouth of the tunnel, this yield will pay for crushing. When they do reach the Whan reef they will be one hundred and sixtythree feet below the old workings, and

so will have splendid backs of ground to work out. . Moanatairai Union.— A crushing of over thirty one tons of stone for the No. 1 tribute of this eompany was completed yesterday at the Waiotahi Battery, and yielded sixteen ounces three pennyweights ten grains of melted gold, or just over half an ounce to the ton. • Twenty Third of June.— The crushing of nine tons of stone and a parcel of specimens has turned out most satisfactoi ily. It was reduced at Souter’s battery and <rnvc seventy nine ounces nine pennjweights three grains of melted gold, thus giving at the rate of nearly nine ounces to the ton. The specimens picked from the parcel were very good indeed. Cure. —The crushing going on at the Tararu battery continues to shape very well, and a good return may be expected. A little gold can be seen in the stone in paddock. . , MoanaTAlAßl.— More good picked stone has been taken out since the last clean-up, having come principally from the No. 1 lode. ' This lode has been blocked out for about an average of forty r -five feet above the one hundred and thirty 7 two feet level, but there is still a block of ground standing, which is calculated to contain between four and five thousand tons of quartz, which may be expected to crush well. The No. 2 lode has also yielded very well, and the manager is going to rise on it close to the slide, up to which he has driven on the one hundred and thirty-two feet level. From the stone taken out

already, this block of ground on tins lode may be expected to turn out well. Caledonian. —Two new contracts have been M. in the mine yesterday—one to open out at the bottom of the deep winze oil tbe main lode, and to drive north and south; the other to sink another winze on the lode at about forty feet from the main cross-cut, towards the north, which will be sixty feet away from the present deeo winze.- The drive to the north from the bottom of the deep winze will connect with the one going down, and so open up a block of ground for easy working. On the Hazlebank side of the mine, the lender lias.becoine very small and barren, and the manager believes tnat it is not the Young American vein at all, but simplj a stray branch from it, When the drive is a little further into the Caledonian ground, crosscuts will he entered both ways from it, with a view to prospecting tho ground.