VICTORIA.
In a preceding issue tbe preparations for starting operations in this mine wert
aluded to. Mr Bayldon is still busily engaged on the working plan wliicli will be finished this week. Work will be started on the Vale of Avoca reef at its outcrop near the Waiotahi- road. This lode runs north and south, or at right angles to the champion lodes of the head of the Monatairi, and it consequently junctions with Carpenter's, the Star of the South, Sons of Freedom, and other famous reefs. It traverses the Victoria ground for a distance of 900 or 1000 feet, and its average breadth, so far as is yet known of it from surface operations, is about 3 feet. In the early days trial crushings taken from different parts of the reef' on the cap of the hill yielded highly promising results, one crushing giving an average of 15ozs per ton. The fearful cost of transit rendered its remunerative working a matter of impossibility. The construction of the Waiotahi road to its vicinity, however, will now enable it to be thoroughly prospected. It may be mentioned that the proposed drive will be 200 feet below the lowest of the old surface workings.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3526, 14 April 1880, Page 2
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202VICTORIA. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3526, 14 April 1880, Page 2
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