NEW WHAU.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3617, 30 July 1880, Page 2

NEW WHAU.

This mine was visited to-day, I being shown through the workings by Mr Wilson, who fully explained his plan of working. He was for some days engaged in making the mine in a workable condition, and things are now in a state that will admit of the output of the mine being got away with as little trouble . and expense as possible. At the 160 feet level there is about fire feet of quartz iv the face, and I am glad to be able to chronicle a noticeable change in the lode, viz., that the hanging wall part which comprises the best looking quartz shoots off easily from the buck quartz of the footwall—in other words a sort of wall is making beCweea the two sections of the lode. This change may foreshadow an improvement in the quality of the stone. I may mention that this drive is now only about 60 feet from the Alburnia boundary (Black Angel section.) In the stope above this level there is a body of quartz about 10 feet thick, a considerable portion of which is remunerative crushing dirt. In the intermediate level, rails are laid home to the face, which is about 40 feet from the boundary. The quartz has a satisfactory appearance. Stoping over this level continues to produce remunerative dirt. In the upper level the manager has commenced stoping from the winze, and in carry in* on this work has crossed the break met in the intermediate level. This break runs flat, and has cvi dontly a very considerable influence on the reef. The lode in the stope is without question looking better than at any time since the gold went out in the winze. It is full of copper, the occurrence of that metal being so marked that many portions of the stone are covered' with its green oxide. Nice looking dabs of gold are perceptible here and there, and the lode altogether bears many of the most prominent characteristics met with in the Alburnia intermediate level. So favorably am I impressed with its appearance that I believe rich gold might be shot down at any minute. According to the mining plan the block to the Whau level is intact, but I have reason to believe

that a portion of it was worked out by some tribulei's gome years ago, iron* a winze sunk at the Whau level a short distance from the boundary. I believe it would be of advantage were the truth or otherwise of this statement proved.