MINING.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 265, 14 August 1872, Page 3

MINING.

Cure. —Yesterday afternoon thee was a good spurt on these shares, and they rose in price a great deal. Yesterday morning several shots were put into the reef and a large quantity of stone .vas broken down. (>ue of the shots brought out the best stone that has as yet been taken from the mine. Une piece was a good large size, and was exceedingly rich. In the afternoon a large parcel of excellent specimens wire broken out of the vein in the footwall of the lode, and a splendid show was still left in the face. Where tire first gold was taken from was about five feet away from the spot where the run was first found a short time since. The run seems to he a good width, and is evidently started by the junction of the the leuder (as reported some time since) worked in the Golden Crown and Manukau, with the reef somewhere near where the first gold was got. That the run of gold is a rich one is proved beyond doubt, but to what extent it will run remains yet to be proved. That this reef is essentially patchy is a well-known and admitted fact, no continuous run having ever been opened up in it at present, hut the present seems to be the heaviest that has yet been opened up. The specimens on hand are, we think, certain to crush well, and we look for a heavy return for the current month. Caledonian. —There was nn exceedingly fine show of gold in the face of the Otago run stopes yesterday morning, some distance below th« mid-level, which has been broken into now. When the stone comes to be knocked down there will, no doubt, he a very good haul of specimen stuff. The lode all over looks very well, and maintains its large size, furnishing quantities of good crushing dirt for the mill. In the hanging wall workings on the No. 2 lode at the No. 1 level the vein which has lately come in, and in wlncT) gold was found, is now lying on the lode itself, the footwall of the one being the hanging wall of the latter, in the same manner as the two lodes were together at the intermediate level a short time since. The vein is nearly six feet thick, the footwall portion of it being very good-looking stuff, and the upper portion being more mullocky. All the dirt is being saved for crushing, although no gold has been seen since the vein was first opened out. There are a party of contractors now at work driving along the footwall side of the No. 2 reef also, but up to the present no gold has been seen. The vein followed in towards the south from the footwall of the specimen lode at the upper level, and which for some distance back was but small and broken, has made out again to over afoot, and at any moment we may expect to hear of gold having been got. The precious metal has been found in the vein which runs from the hanging wall of the No. 1 or main lode just over where the No. 3 winze was put down. This leader was left in past days when first found, but now a drive is being put through in the ground which caved in some time back, and the leader is in baud and can be worked well. Gold lias been seen in it, and tne chances are that when opened up a little more something good may be come across. The block north and south of the No. 1 and 2 winzes are being rapidly broken out and the stone sent to the battery. The rise going up below the Otago run work ngs is up for a distance of 28 feet, and will break through in a few feet more work. The footwall of the lode is in hand, and a couple of feet of the reef, gold being seen now and then, but notin any quantity.

Dixon’s No. I.—A trial of a ton of tailings resulting from the late crushing at the Ballarat and Clunes Battery is being made at the Caledonian Battery for Dixon’s. The result of this test will go to prove to a great extent whether or no the loss of gold in crushing was so great as it is thought. If the tailings prove rich, there will have to be several alterations made at the machine before more stuff is ciusbed, and if they do not turn out much, crushing will be at once resumed in hopes of getting better returns soon. The reef is looking very well indeed, showing gold frequently, and a nice patch of specimens were taken out in the beginning of the wees. Eureka. —A crushing of 14£ tons of stone for the Eureka tributers was completed on Monday last, and gave a return of 20oz. 15dwt. of melted gold, being about an ounce and a-half to the ton. The stuff waß crushed at the Kuranui Battery. Sons or Freedom. —Yesterday again there were some nice specimens taken from the bottom of tbe winze, where the lode is looking very well indeed. The reef in the main level workings also looks well, and is turning out good crushing dirt. Middle Star. —Yesterday morning a haul of 591bs. of very rich specimens were made in this mine in the No. 3 lode, and the manager reports that there were more to be taken out, gold beiiig iu sight in good quantities.

Moanataiari. —The low level workings of this mine are progressing most favorably, and as quickly as could be desired. The manager has started now to drive on what we will call the uew lode (the one which gave 240 z from a trial ton) in the direction of the Don Pedro and Juverin ss gro'ind. He had already opened out on it the other way, for some 20 feet, and left a fine body of stone in the face. Towards the South he has gone some five or six feet, and some nice specimens were taken out near to the bottom of the drive, gold being visible in the lode for some distance along the floor and up from it. In the cross-cut for the No. 3 lode there are now three veins in hand separ*ted by mullock and these are to be followed when it is expected that they will make into one. In the upper level cross-cut, to the south east, they are now in the old No 9 workings clearing them out ana timber ing up. All the stuff taken out from here is being sent to the battery. The small branch vein continues to show gold aa it is followed, but is still irregular in its strike. From the north-west cross-cut, along the slide, they are now putting in a T to communicate with the main shaft , which is about 40 feet away. The drive is in 15 feet or so, and in the coiner of the face a healthy looking leader has come in, though no gold was visible in it where first struck. The appearance of the stone is favorable. There is nothing to report further concerning the workiegs of the mine.