OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3981, 1 October 1881, Page 2

OUR MINES.

ALBTLRNIA. | The company retorted today for the ' month. The yield" was 66ozs 13dwts retorted gold. A good deal of the quartz crushed came from the Success reet. A crushing of 3 loads for George and party, company tributers, gave loz 13dwts gold. „ WAIOTAHI. The monthly cleaning up for this company resulted in the splendid yield of 4440za lOdwts, retorted gold, being the produce of'2Bß tons of dirt from all parts of the mine. The melting process reduced th return to 4390z5. . HAPfi CREEK MINE. ' ; Wilson and party, tributers to-day banked 73ozs 9dwts gold. This with the result of the interim, retorting banked some days ago, brings up the total for the month to 1290zs 6dwts melted gold. For this return 129 loads of qurrtz have been put through. We are informed that this mine is looking much better now than lately. Some more picked stone showing good coarse gold was obtained this morning from the north drive at No. 2 level, und gold is now showing right down the face of the drive. According to surveys, this is not the shot of gold which was worked in the upper level, and this will probably not be met with till the drive ia in 30 or 40 feet further.

SOUTHERN CROSS. The manager reports as follows:— "Sfcoping is still being continued on specimen leader. A few pounds of picked stone have come to hand from here during the last week, and the leader looks very promising. I "have had the winze we broke into on lo 1 reef sunk down a distance of 30 feet, but the reef at this depth is pinched up very small, and, not seeing any gold in the stone on sinking to this depth, I thought it best to discontinue sinking for the present. I have now commenced to open out on the reef from tbe winze, and hope to have better success in driving and stoping on it. lam also driving ou a leader in the hangingwall of iNo 1 reef of battery level. The leader looks well in places, but I have seen no gold in it yet. I had a trial lot put through from above battery level, where the cross reef junctioned with another leader, but the stuff from here was rather poor. There is on hand at present 81bs of picked stone, 4 loads of quartz, and 17ozs Udwts of amalgam from G loads of quartz that were crushed after retorting on the 17th inst.—-James Cowts." GOLD 11ETUKNS.

Coliban.—Hunter and party have crushed SOlbs, of picked stone at the Alburnia battery for the five return of 85ozs 4dwts melted gold. Kobin Hooi>.—-Lowe aud party, the proprietors of this claim, banked 14ozs 16dwts gold to-day.