TAIRUA.
PHCENIX G.M. CO.
Thecontractor for putting up the battery expects to be able to make a start next week, the engine and everything now being almost ready. 100 tons of firewood have been cut, and is at the battery, and the low-level tramway is ready for work. The directors have appointed Mr Mann mine manager, and as he, with Charlie Rowley, were the prospectors and discoverers of the auriferous nature of this portion of the ''Tairua district, if it is possible to make the Phoenix a success, he may be expected to do it. Several men are employed breaking out stuff, the two lodes worked being what is known as the alluvial lode, and a large quartz reef seven feet thick. The alluvial lode is about five feet thick and is enclosed by two-inch casings on each wall. Spendid prospects have been washed out of the stuff from the latter, and as there are-100 feet of backs, a few men can easily keep the mill constantly goiDg. Mr Scott, who has a Californian patent for a gold cencentrator is to take charge of the battery, and I understand that there is some probability of that gentlemen, if he can come to arrangements with the directors, using one of his concentrators in conjunction with the battery, when he asserts he will be able to save as much or more gold than the battery, from the stuff which, has passed through the stampers, Mr Scott has a small concentrator at Tairua with which he has made several tests of stuff from various portions'of the district, and as his machine has been used with great success -in the saving of coarse gold in California, it is expected to be even a greater success when the fine gold of the Tairua district is operated on. - The directors have already expended about £600 or £700 on this piece of ground, and are confident of its being a success. If this proves payable, and leads to mining operations being carried on in the vicinity, Mr Mann may reasonably expect to be a participator in the Government awards for the discovery of payable field.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2905, 7 June 1878, Page 4
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358TAIRUA. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2905, 7 June 1878, Page 4
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