THE BRIGHT SMILE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1775, 10 September 1874, Page 2

THE BRIGHT SMILE.

I did not visit the mine this morning, but I did the company's own batter^C Of the battery itself I have nothihg^b say other than all things seemed, to ; work smoothly. But the new buddle took my attention. It is the first of its kind erected on the Thames, and from the way it does its work seems to answer admirably. The basin of the buddle is of brick work, the bottom of cement. The feed conveyed from ten head of stamp* is through iron pipes, fixed to the upright buddle shaft, revolving with it. Instead of the old-fashioned canvass flaps, or whatever they may be called, iron plates arc used, like large garden hoes, so placed on arms attached to the sha ffc that each one just touches the stuff in the Huddle,; causing all the heavier particles of

minerals to remain in tho basin, the sand , only going away. These hoes can be ! raised or depressed at pleasure by means of a screw. I snw aheap of stuff that had been taken from the basin —it was nearly puro mundics and pyrites, as clean »s though ifc had been concentrated. The company are erecting a dam in the Karaka Creek close to the battery to enable them to work in tho summer months. This system of draining our creeks will be very useful,' if the mountain streams can be darned back, as we hare always lost one day's water in seven —representing nearly one day's crushing.