OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4036, 5 December 1881, Page 2

OUR MINES.

MOANATAIfiI."LiVThe battery ttarted crushing with 20 head on the Company's and tributen'r quartz this morning. The manager reports n las follows :—" Heldt's section, 132 feet ! level: The stopes here show ,a ; slight improvement since my last, and a few | pounds of picked stone have been met with. Tunnel level, No 3 footwall branch leader: The underhand stopes pipdiwißd ktf" 1 small parcel of fair picked stone this week',;: i and the leader looks promising, though not payable. 80 feet level, All Nations reef: The various branch leaders' in the r atoms, will average together 12 inches in widthY but the quartz continues to; be of low ~ grade. 10 feet level: No. 9 branch leader '■ has not been taken down since last reported on, neither has the footwall of No 9 at the, , 150 feet level, A drive is being put in! at-' same level on the above named, leader. •', which is very small, but gold bearing; the rise referred to in a former report has since been communicated with the 80 feet rr level, and a strong current of air is now"" available; the drire at this level on No 0 branch leader south west of main crosscut will soon be returned. Central Italy section:, We have abandoned the old south westerly drive for i a time, having tapped a little water, which had been dammed back in the old workings,-but this will drain off. We have since com* menced driving north-east of crosscut OB ' the reef, which is about fifteen inches wide, and some oT the quartz looks kindly for gold...Morning Star section,:, They is an inoreased quantity of quartz. ebsai^Lrfrom the two leaders we have in hand-, ' but I am afraid the quality will be wanting, gold not being so frequently seen as during last month. The batterjt,. will, however, prove its value. , The winze * on Heldt's leader is about 40 feet deep, the leader being six inches thick at thii point.—J. G. Vivian." ' : I YOUNG COLONIAL! r \'\ The trial parcel of 10 tons, which is now being put through the Smile, of Fortune battery at Owharoa will probably.i>e finished today and the gold brought to the Thames to-morrow. It is expected to yield fully 3|ozs per ton.

iSi.Dici.Li (Owharoa). — Chriatey and, party's return waa397ozs.lQdwU retorted gold, and not 30Oozs as erroneoualy published in Saturday's issue, and the .melted ' return is 3820«s Wdwts gold. . '