TE AROHA MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3744, 24 December 1880, Page 2

TE AROHA MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(FfiOH TESTBBDAV'S Tl ABOHA MllTIB.) Te Aroha G.M.Co-—A few issues back we recorded the fact that another lode had been discovered in the footwall on the winze on the Prospectors' leader, and likewise that it had been decided to follow up tbe new body of quartz. Since then the intention had been carried oat, the result being that the new lode has been found to run out upward in the form of a wedge, a small cavity being left at the extremity. On the winze being continued the old leader, was found to decrease in size altogether, white the. new lode gradually took its place. It is "evident that what we have hitherto called the new lode is really a portion of the Prospectors' leader which, had formed a somewhat peculiar joint or splice giving the idee, at first of a new lode coming in. In the present bottom of the winze 15 feet down, the leader is about six inches thick, and some stones showing gold were taken from it yesterday. ' Work baa.now been suspended by "the company's, hands, for ~ the holidays, but the contractors will work during protection time. The country continues hard. Golden Anchor.—Yesterday the. winze was down thirty-five feet; the lode ; being carried on the hanging wall. When last broken, it was about fourteep inches thick, and far. more compact than 5 formerly. Some nice colors were seen* and tbe shareholders estimate the present output to be fully as good as the panel sent to the Thames, the dish prospects being quite as rich as those taken from the stuff crushed. "* The country' has developed into a solid whitey-brown sandstone,, of a. character >ell suited to carry auriferous quartz;. r A little'water has been making, but nothing more than a few buckets' baling per day will rednee. The shareholders expect to be able to sink another forty feet before reaching of the river level will cause them to suspend sinking. A level will be opened out east and west on the lode. „We must not forget to mention that, two nice looking leaders have been met with in sinking, which it is contemplated to prospect .after the holidays. Since our last report a hard bar has come into the face of the surface, which pinohed thelode considerably. The last shot put in last evening, however, conveyed the welcome intelligence that soft country was again to be traversed, while the lode was found to be making, though lying at an angle of one in four. Once property rid Of ttte hard ground, it may be expected to resume its natural dip. No gold was seen in going through the bar, though dish prospects were obtained. Prosperity.—Mr Freeman, one of the shareholders who had been deputed to accompany tbe trial to the Thames,' returned here yesterday afternoon. He informs us that the exact amount of stuff taken to the Alburnia battery was llowt, the yield of retorted gold being 17dwts. On the result being taken to the Bank of New Zealand, it was mefted into a button weighing 16dwts, the assay value being £2 15s per oz The total expenses in connection with the crushing: were slight so there will be a small dividend. Mr Freeman speaks, highly of the courtesy he met with at the battery front Mr Pitkethley, the manager, and was pleased at the good wishes expressed On all bands for the prosperity of the field.. He desires to thank Mr Turner, of this place. for conveying the quartz to the landing -J free of charge, and for the information of others desirous of sending parcels, to the Thames, he says that the price of oarting to the mill is 4s per load.' We bear from good authority that one of the jriitrje*^ Mklers refused £100' for his interest. On '"" the news of the payable result of the trial becoming known yesterday afternoon, '1 a number of parties commenced pegging out on the burnt spur,, noth of the Aroha - Company's ground, on whioh tbe Prosperity is situated. - Waikato!—The manager yesterday conveyed to the Thames a trial parcel of half a ton, for treatment immediately after the holidays. The stuff looked well, gold being seen in colors, while the rubbly portions gave excellent prospects. - |||V should not be surprised to see the parcel yield at the rate of 1J or 2 ounces per ton. " . Tui.—The shareholders expect te hare the result of their crushing of thirty hundredweight to band. this afternoon; They are in hopes of the stuff going at the rate of 1$ to 2ozs per ton. In the mine the two walls of the lode are now to band. . ' / ~ Golden Crown.—A slip retarded operations in the drive yesterday. The shareholders are in ab|nt twenty-seven feet, and expect to have to drive thirty feet further to intersect the Gulden Anchor lode.