OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3741, 21 December 1880, Page 2

OUR MINES.

LAST CHANCE.

. Mr Babe, who has a tribute in the above mine, last Saturday crashed aboat a dozen pounds of specimen stone for the satisfactory return of 9ozs lOdwts melted gold. NEW NORTH DEVON. The manager reports he has now about two hundred weight of fair picked stone on hand from the drive on the lode at the 70 feet level. The stone was not rich the gold being well distributed through, the reef, but sufficiently so to warrant its being picked out. The crushing of the general stuff at the Herald mill is showing for an excellent return. The manager hopes by making a strenuous I effort, to be able to keep the battery employed pretty constantly for some time to come. WEST COAST. Northey and party, tributers in the above mine finished a crushing of 15 tons at the Herald battery this morning for the magnificent return of 161ozs ldwt melted gold. This is a very nice Christmas Box indeed. PINAFORE. Hickey and party, who have been working on this piece of ground, which is situated on the right bank of the Waiotahi creek, and adjoins the Moanatairi eastern boundary, for the past three or four months, commenced a crushing of 4 cwt at Vickery's old battery at the foot of the Karaka. The crushing is not yet completed, and the tributers cannot as yet tell how the general result will shape, but some specimens shown us from this parcel were very rich and showed gold freely. NEW WHAU. The Mine Manager reports as follows for the week —The drive to the westward of the cross-cut is now in 40 feet, making the total distance driven on the hanging wall leader 20 feet. In the western face, the leader is about 12 inches in thickness, and we obtained some picked stone at every breaking down. We have also carried the leading slope along for 60 feet. The lode in the stope is about two feet in thickness, showing gold, but not as good as it is in the drive. I have sent to the battery 10 loads of quartz from the main lode, which has yielded Bozs, and also 18 from the hanging-wall leader, which has yielded 43ozs retorted gold.—l am, &c, Chas. H. Wilson, December 20.