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S A trial parcel of 25 tons has been, (crushed from the Point Eussell reef at ithe tunnel level for lliozs of amalgam. jThiS is equal to'about,3dwts gold pe'Hdn, and may be considered satisfactory, as it was doubted if? gold would be obtained in the reef at all at this d^pth. ,Yester-. 'day-'.a rise" was coniraenced'oh the'lode to' .connect, with the Point-Russell winze. iThe manager. has been prospecting the NbV !■ lode, also in the tunnel level, and in the west drive, where !the Idde' is two, and a half; fe.et there is. eyecy. indication, fojc; 'gold;': In s the eastern'prospectirig drive" the lode is split up. There is not much of any impoi'tance in the lower level, with the exception perhaps that' a between,the tunnel and 80, feet levels onthe No.' 2 reef has been^ macle, the rise having holed through' yesterday. - ,
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2986, 10 September 1878, Page 2
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143MOANATAIRI. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2986, 10 September 1878, Page 2
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