NEW NORTH DEVON.
In company with the managing director I had a look at this company's workings to-day. On reaching the face of the drive I found that there was about 6 feet of the reef 'intact from hanging to foot-wall standing, and with a hole bored ready for blasting. There was also six or seven feet of the foot-wall portion of the lode standing, and to the rear of this a stope has been commenced. The lode is fully three feet thick —nearly all solid quartz—while a good quantity of it is white and hard. There re iwo or three broad bVck bands
of dark stone reaching' from back to floor, which, on examining. I found to be highly Wneralised. I did not see any gold, as the face was rather dirty. The country in the dig is soft and higbly mineralised. The contractors have been stopped, and wages men are now employed, and Mr Mcllhaney informed me that he expects to start crushing 50 tons of stuff next week. Some 30 or 40 tons are now in the Bl»ck'Angel hopper, and is likely looking quartz.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2897, 29 May 1878, Page 2
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187NEW NORTH DEVON. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2897, 29 May 1878, Page 2
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