OUR MINES.
NEW WHAU.
The following is the mine manager's report. —" To the directors of tha New Whau Goldmining Company.—The drive to the eastward of the cross-cut is now in 80 feet, making the total distance driven on the hanging-wall leader 140 feet. In tbe eastern face the leader is very small, and the country about is hard. I have stoppeb driving and put the two men stoping from the rise. The rise when up 50 feet holed through to the cross-cut that wss driven from a rise on the main lode. The leader is about 15 inches in thickness where we holed through, of a brown rubly nature, showing colours of gold. I have started two men to drive on the leader at this level to get out. a few loads to crush. If that proves payable, we shall have a large block of 140 feet in length, by 95 feet in height, to work out from the intermediate level- I have sent down sixteen loads to the battery, the greatest portion of which was brokeu out from the rise and the winze, which yielded 30 ounces of melted gold.—Chas. H. Wilson."
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3787, 16 February 1881, Page 2
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193OUR MINES. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3787, 16 February 1881, Page 2
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