OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3876, 1 June 1881, Page 3

OUR MINES.

_ „ ALBION. MM,'tompknj- floated during tho peg. grog-out mania which pre?ailed eighteen ■oaths ago, unlike many of its compeers, . is still steadily at work. The promoters took the..wise precaution of devoting a large* portion of the money derived from theiale of. the promoters' shares to the working; of the ground. Mr Bowler, the muMger has four men driying on the Vale lode which however shows no gold There is however a certainty that Dixon'g and other Alburnia crow lodes junction with the Yale reef in this ground, when there will be a chance, of the prospects materially improving. \ t - ■.";'.. CALEDONIAN. The mine manager's report for the past wfcek is as follows:—The crosscut, No. 1 level, has cut through, the No. 1 reef, which is fully 4 feet in thiclcnesf, south* west, side of crosscut, and about 3 feet north-east side.. There is not much change in the appearance of it since my last. It is still composed of black clay, interlaced with quartz, which is we'l mineralised with yellow copper,, mondio* •fid ruby silrer and other indications, with" a. few colours of «oJd «een while through the banging wall am. saving the quartz for a trial crushiog, c . I Jbaw.started, to drive both ways on it«r- N0..9 terel winze: Stoping south* weft end the gold does not appear to go far from* the winze. I shall start north east end this week, to see if I can follow it in that direction*, I have got a few stones with blotches of gold in them from this place the ft-ek There is a place I should; like tj try at No. 3 level where-1 think No: 1 reef has not been tried maeh* if any. lam of opinion it has bete missed between No. 8 and No. 4 wirite*.' This place is in a direct line with "the big shot of gold, and if ever picked up 1 think it will be in that direction.— T. B. Hicks. GOLD BETURNS. Moajutlixi.—A crushing for Inglis and party yielded loz 6dwts gold. Nbw GxrißEA—A crushing from this claim at Tairna yielded 5| ozs gold.