OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3872, 27 May 1881, Page 2

OUR MINES.

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The manager inform! me that the crushing is shaping quite as well as it did during last month. There is about 600 ounces of amalgam on. band, and picked stone amounting to half a handredwjHght has accumulated from Herival'r and footwall leaders and other parts of the mine, la the mine the state of thing! is highly satisfactory. The drive on the footwall leader at the battery ApwL jbas been carried borne to the Manukaa boundary, and stoping has been started on payable dirt. The leader is over a foot in thickness, and' bears the atuiil characteristics of auriferous lodes in this locality. It was from the workings on this leader at the intermediate level that the Iralk of the picked stuff* was. taken. In the operations on Herival's leader the drire bas been extended on 'th^eourse of the lode a distance of about^'2© feet, ann eastward of the cross, cat an : improvement is likewise perceptible, the "eouifry becoming more solid, .and .the' leader carrying walls better' defined ' than formerly. The No. 1 main l«Je at the;^o feet level now. averages sft in thieknJßfW, and 19 payable dirt. The lode is heairflT mineralsed, and I consider there <isa good. prospect of richer stone being met vritlt at the junctim with the footwall leader especially when the auriferous chatao ter of the latter is taken iflto consideration. Gold is teen erety breaking down in the No. 1 leader cut in the battery level, and thas known as the No. 1 level leader; It ia.sometimes two feet in thickness. The m«na» ger is stoping to it towards the slide. Stoping is on progress on vthe saloke lode at the LOO feet level, but the results are not so encouraging, no gotd~being seen. The .lode, however, looks,:;prqna|singr and maintains its size. Hie driving* -contractors at the 170 feet level arif stHl^on light ground.

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The: = report is as follows:—" Belfa«jt: la this section there is no iinproroment, nor bare I been able to pick up the lode l seaward of tbe clay band, Kelly*: J*m driring westward on the beach level oft, a large and likely lode, which X Uurtk tl the Duke's. This is full of lik«4y; mineral, but shows no gold._ Charlstont; Thejode between the Belfast's and Pevtecni ground has been somewhat brok«a no, bat it again making solicU- No gold seen. Junction :Onr ■ surface veiniTiiNfJftkftfigg better than usual." ThAwm aiewij iiMat thirty pounds of good BpwM«MW, *«M hare found an entirely; new rein, w|A)|i alao is showing speciflieqr/ :<ftfy: Ufa* sale note for the'eonip^n^Vgold is m follows :—339ott f3dwts at S&TifteO 9 8 . None of our -•—mr-irrrttmranj 'am - tionalgold, - „ "^ , T ;^ OLD GOLDEN Va&R ..i- ftttl* Rotd continue* to W^ettii tie diflerent but there i*fco r»iteriil change to notice*- :": '■> •o> f«" rTW-i"»