NEW WHAU.
The mioe manager's report is as follows :—-Siace my last report I have had two men driving on the intermediate level. The lode in the face of the drive is five feet in thickness, but not looking so well as when last reported upon, and the country about it is very hard aDd expen sive to work. In the stope above the intermediate level the lode is 4 feet thick. I have been saving about 18 inches of it for crushing. I have started two men to put up a rise from the stopes, 50 feet from your eastern boundary. They are up,ten wet, but have not taken down any of the reef. I have also put two men to drive a cross-cut in the the hanging-wall from the chamber, at the bottom of the tributers' winze. They are in 9 feet, and I expect to cut the leader in about three feet more driving. I have sent down to the battery 14 loads of quartz, which have yielded 32ozs of amalgam, which is scarcely payable. I would recommend your putting up a rise from the bottom level, twenty feet back from the face of the drive, as I have been told by Mr Daykin that there is a gold-bearing leader in the hanging-wall of the reef, about forty feet above the lower level.—Chas. H. Wilson.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue XI, 24 September 1880, Page 2
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228NEW WHAU. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue XI, 24 September 1880, Page 2
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