OUR MINES.
NEW WHAU.
The manager reports that he has driven 45 feet eastward on the hanging-wall lode. In driving that distance the lode has been from four to eight inches in thickness, showing gold freely when breaking down. He has now on hand about sixty pounds of picked stone, and is now under the face of the drive where he first cat the lode. A start to rise will be made on Monday, and he will have to rise 60 feet to connect the two drives; when eonneetod, will start stoping out, and if it continues showing gold as it has done in driving the 46 feet, some good payable crushing* should be obtained.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3718, 24 November 1880, Page 2
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115OUR MINES. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3718, 24 November 1880, Page 2
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