MOANATAIRI.
The smallness of the yield on Saturday must have been surprising tof a good many, in the face of the comparative richness of its predecessors. It is due to the fact that the lodes on which the manager has to depend for the bulk of his quartz supply are small and patchy, the wonder is indeed that the old Moanatairi has kept up its average yield so well. The manager expects the winze sinking from the 80 feet level to hole through into the level below, on the footwall branch of No. 3 lode about Wednesday next. -This.. is the lode from which most of the gold has been obtained lately, and it is expected that the winze now on the eve of completion will open up another payable block. The extension of the Nonpareil cross-cut is proceeding apace, and ptoping operations are in progress on the Nonpareil lode—a small leader varying from nine to three
inches in thickness. 'J he crushing from this averages about half an ounce per torn which, however, is scarcely payable. .
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3704, 8 November 1880, Page 2
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177MOANATAIRI. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3704, 8 November 1880, Page 2
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