NONPAREIL UNITED.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2786, 18 January 1878, Page 2

NONPAREIL UNITED.

Last night the managing director, Mr Chapman, broke out another parcel of specimens from the No. 3 lode, some 14. or 15 pounds of which were exhibited at the Bank of New South Wales to-day, and attracted considerable attention. They were certainly some of the richest stones that I hare seen, and. some of them were nearly solid, a broad, welldefined shot of gold running right through them. I visited the mine this morning. On reaching -the face I found that the No. 3 lode is about 6 feet back from the face, and runs JS.E. and S.W. across the drive. It is about 18 inches thick, and is composed of two different kinds of quartz: that on the footwall, which rests on a mullocky wail, is solid or " blocky " quartz, and it was from this portion of the" lode that the finest of the stone was obtained. The hanging wall is competed of disintegrated, priony quartz, full of coarse gold. At the time of my visit, good gold was to be seen freely all over the face of the reef. In the face of the drive another lode was to be seen coming in, showing fint-rate colors of gold in many places. Alongside of the lode are a com. plete network of stringers, stretching right across the face, and running towards the No. 3.. These leaders or stringers should become incorporated with the reef in & few feet, when something good may be expected. Back from the No. 3 a few feet are two other leaders—both of which are auriferous, and gold is showing in the back of the drive where they were cut. The country is splendid for gold, being sandstone thickly crossed with black mundic veins and quartz stringers. _, The find is close on 200 feet from the Central Italy shaft; it^is some 40 or 45 feet from the Central boundary, with which it runs almost parallel. The air in the drive is very light, and it is proposed to do nothing of any consequence until connection is obtained with the upper level. To do this it will be necessary to drive another 25 feet, and then rise 40 feet to meet a wioze from the upper level. In a great measure the credit of this discovery ia due to Mr Chapman, who, when other shareholders have been less sanguine, has " kept the pot boiling," and has carried his operations so far to a successful issue. It may be added that at present there does not seem to be the least chance of the Central of Italy getting this lode.