Our Mining Reporter.
TOOKEY QUARTZ MINING COM
PANY.
I have been shown a specimen of copper pyrites taken from a lode cut on the 400 feet level in the "western crosscut, 70 feet from the northern boundary. The lode, when cut, measured one foot in thickness, and is? in nearly equal proportions of quartz and metal." It is quite the best specimen obtained from this depth. Mr Dewar is going to have some of the stone tested, and naturally hopes that it may prove gold-bearing. No. 1 also looks well on this level. Several tons are in the paddock ready for testing, so that no time will be Wt. No. 2 lode has not yet been fully intersected, although 12 feet of the. reef has been cut through. The foot-wall part nowbeing taken down looks, yery promising. It is very encouraging to remark that such prospects as above mentioned have been obtained by the Tookey mine Jat their deep level, because the question of an auriferous new strata must be affected by ali of these \ indications in mines operating at deep levels.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1999, 1 June 1875, Page 2
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182Our Mining Reporter. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1999, 1 June 1875, Page 2
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