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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3585, 23 June 1880, Page 2

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This mine was visited to-day, Mr James kindly conducting me through the workings. ' The engine is not working at present through the unfinished state of the new brace, the recent broken weather having considerably retarded the contractor. Eecourse had consequently to be made to the la Iderway—a good safe foot road though rather tiresome. At the No. 2 level the only work for the company at present m progress is the sinking of a winze under the eastern lode. This is now down 40 feet, and colors of gold are met with frequently. For [he fivst thirty feet or so about, four feet of the footwaU of the lode was taken, but latterly, the manager being desirous of getting through speedily to improve the ventilation of the next level, bis given instructions to sink in the country on the footwpll, and just st.ip the quartz. The exact size of the reef is not knowa, though 'there is every probability of it being a large one. The minerals are of a satisfactory character, and I have no doubt but that it will yield remunerative crushing o^ir'.. Before proceeding to the No. 3 level, I was. shown through a Sovtion of the old workings in the •tago section from' which a large quantity of remunerative dashing dirt was takenl—nothing very rich but yielding •sufficient to pay expences and leave a smf'l balance. All the most likely looking portion otjthe block was wrought, and the manager intends shortly to put on some men to break quartz here. At the No. 3 level the face of the cross-cut has just touched a lode which will probably turn out to be the reef worked on at the upper level. The quartz, of which but a little has been uncovered, is of a similar description. I saw some first class mine* ral but no gold. The crosscut has puched the hanging wall of the lode, and ■■:s•>];.? winze is on the footwall and the siz§ of the reef is uncertain, the distance to be driven before it is far enough in to connect with the winze is unknown. The country and the lode are extremely bard, though good progress has been made.