NEW WHAU.
I visited this mine to-day and found that a Tery great improvement has taken place in the appearance of the lode and 160 feet level. There is five or six feet of stone in the face, fully one half of which from its appearance should be good crushing stuff. It is the most likely looking piece of lode I have yet seen at this end of the level. The footwall portion is still rather white and hungry looking, but the increase in size of the better looking stone may cut it out. In the intermediate drive the men were engaged in stripping the lode, and in the workings near the floor of the 70 feet some nice looking auriferous stones were being broken. Generally there is a very considerable improvement in the appearance of the mine, and I am glad to hear that this opinion is backed up by an improvement in the crushing. The cleaning up of the crushing at the Alburnia mill produced Saozs retorted gold, and since crushing was started at the Herald about 200ozs of amalgam have accumulated.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3596, 6 July 1880, Page 3
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184NEW WHAU. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3596, 6 July 1880, Page 3
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