GOLDEN CROWN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3776, 3 February 1881, Page 2

GOLDEN CROWN.

The stopes on No. 2 leader at battery level have been carried up .to base level. The leader is small, but a moderate supply of quartz has been got from it during the month. The stopes on No. 1 leader at the same level are also well up towards the base level, but here there is still a considerable height of backs above the base level. The leader averages lft. in thickness, and produces good payable quartz, which is heavily mineralised, showing colours of gold occasionally. The crosscut at battery level with the object of cutting Herival's leader has been driven 20 feet during the past week, but there still remains from 15 to 20 feet to drive before the manager expects to come upon the leader. The principal work carried on at the intermediate level is stoping on footwall leader, from which, a good supply of quartz, though of low grade, is being obtained. Stoping is also being carried on at 100 feet level on hanging wall leader, which averages 8 inches iv thickness, and is going through tight country. The rise on No. 1 main reef from 100 feet level to battery level is up a distance of 85 feet, and'tbere remains from 15 to 20 feet to drive to hole through into battery level. It is going through a. large block, and the reef averages 8 feet in thickness, and produced a'considerable quantity of the quartz crushed during the past month. It averaged from 8 to lOdwts to the ton.