NEW GOLDEN CROWN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3764, 20 January 1881, Page 2

NEW GOLDEN CROWN.

The mine manager reports :—Brace or surface drive: The rise from this drire to surface has been completed, after rising a distance of 31 feet holed into the opening face. The first 12 feet the leader was very small, but from this point to surface it averaged about 12 inches in thickness At the surface it is a mass of small

stringer;, which will have to be taken all in a face and tent to the battery, as before., Ido hot intend to do anything more here at present, but shall keep it as a stand-by for use at any future time v when there is a scarcity "of quartz—at present there is an ample supply of crushing'dirt. The men I withdraw from this I start to-day on the crosscut, at battery level, to intersect Herival's leader. —Contract at 100 ft level: The ground here is still hard, the leader averaging 2ft 6in through, and well defined, but ■ nothing payable has been met with yet.— Intermediate level; The rise from this level to battery level on footwall level has been completed—distance, 65 feefo. For the last 30 feet I have been taking the whole width of 12 feet, fron» the footwall leader to the hanging wall of No, 1 reef. This work has been very costly on timber, bat has opened up a large block of ground. So far it has been low .grade stuff. The battery has been fully employed during the week an quartz from all parts of the mine. Amalgam for past week 128o2s; total on hand, 2230z5. Picked stone very scarce—-not more than lOlbs on band up to the present.