MOANATAIRI.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3203, 26 May 1879, Page 2

MOANATAIRI.

The fortnightly retorting for this company took place at the company's mill on Saturday for the yield of 2530zs gold. At the mine the manager has cut the No.

9 lode at the bottom level and from the gold seeo in the stringers in the vicinity, it is probable the reef at this level will prove highly remunerative. The Point iiussell stuff averages about £ of an ounce per lon. The mine manager's weekly re«~ port is as follows:—" 218 feet level.-—.. From appearances I. think we have sue/ cacded in intersecting No. 9 reef ia north cross cut, but it is not yet sufficiently cut iato to speak as to its quality. The winze sinking on this reef below 150 feet level is down 71 feet and carries a well-defined lode the whole depth. This ia now;two feet thick at the bottom and of promitiog^ appearance. ■>< 80 feet level.—la drivinj^ west 80. 2 reef is 18 inches thick. Ia about 9 days I expect the winze to be connected with this drive. The elopes •throughout have been giving higher grade stuff than for some time "pagfr I'oint Bussell.—ln driving .and stoping west a hanging-wall leader has been ; picked up, from which twenty pounds of specimohs were broken;during7the"lait few days. Between this leader and reef going west the .fhors.e' of, mullock is thickening, and from its appearance they will require working separately. Sixty* five tons of stuff have been crushed from this section, producing forty-five ounces of, gold. From other parts "of the mine' .280 tons .wer^/,, crushed--foiv a yield of two hundred and eight' ounces, the total return being two hundred and fiftythree ounces gold. South cross-cut (Tunnel level);has been extended twenty '. feet during past week. The rebedding of stamper boxes has been completed.— : EoBT. CoiiEß." ■•; i .;- H ' „, v f y r , r y'„