ALBURNIA.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3879, 4 June 1881, Page 2

ALBURNIA.

Some specimen atone was obtained from the Btopes in tbe Twenty-third of Jane reef at Sons of Freedom level yesterday. Gold continues to be seen in the Star of tbe South reef in the wioze. The Success lode will junction with this a few days. OLD CALEDONIAN The small stope on the western side of the winze at No. 3 level is now almost up to the floor of the level. It is the intention of the mine manager, by driving an intermediate level from the bottom of the winze, to open further blocks on tbe specimen leader. The No. 1 reef at* No. 1 level, where cut through the other day, is four feet thick, and looks well, a few colors of gold being perceptible in the hanging-wall, side. The quartz is clayey, but the mineral indications are first chss—ruby, silver, bright copper, and muudic being present in abundance. The manager purposes prospecting for the No. 1 reef at the No. 3 level, believing that it has never been worked there, ■- haviog been lost between Nos. 3 and 4. OLD GOLDEN C ALP. : -. Since my previous visit I was surprised to find the large amount of work done, and the shipshape appearauce of the work notwithstanding the difficulties of working with anything like system a lode near a slide. At the No. 2 level the stopes are fully 10 feet in length, the lode averaging 5 feet in thickness. The best portion of the lode is the hanging wall, in which dabs of gold are frequently seen.' The manager is at present in a position to turn out 30 or 4iO tons per week, and in a short time as the facilities for working improve more hands will be put on, and the output materially increased. The sinking of the winze has been suspended, the extreme flatness of the lode preventing any downward progress. The lode looked well in this workiug. At the No. 3 level, the contractors have driven about 30 feet past the slide, but little or no gold has been seen during the driving ot the past 10 feet. The manager is now not so hedged up as he has been, and will be able to get over the ground faster than formerly. PUEIEI. The crushing of five tons for the Puriri prospectors has been finished for the yield of 24dwts of gold. This, though no! payable, has not " duffered out " the parties, who intend to give the district another trial as soon as. the fine weather sets in. ADELAIDE (KARAKA.) / A crushing for the proprietors of this claim, Mcllhaney and party, was finished to day at Bull's Battery, 30 loads being put through the mill lor the satisfactoy yield of 4.00zs Sdwts melted gold. A party of tributers, Buckley and other, are also putting through a parcel of a<bout 40 loads at the same battery, which is .ahapiug for a good payable return.