NELSON.
'-•#. This day. | Mr Bayfield, manager of Johnston's United Company, Cqllingwood, has re* ceived a report from Johnston, Mattley, and Co., assayers to the Bank of England and London Mint, giving an analysis of samples of galena, blend, and pyrites from the mine at Collingwood. Galena gires 62 per cent, lead, with 14ozs silrer
per ton of ore; blend gives 58 per Cent., zinc, with small percentage silver ; pyrites gives highly payable yield of 4ozs gold," ds|bzs silver, and 3ozs copper per ton — ore which' is worth in London from £15 to £18 per ton. A rein of pyrites, from two to three feet thick, exists on company's property, and a tunnel of 500 feet, to cut the gold-bearing reef supposed to be the same as in the Hope claim, is nearly finished. This tunnel is to be driven 500 feet in all.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4236, 29 July 1882, Page 2
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143NELSON. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4236, 29 July 1882, Page 2
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