OUR MINES.
QUEEN OF BEAUTY. Tlie manager telegraphed late yesterday afternoon as follows:—" Cut through cross reef. Find main reef hove same as ia upper levels. —George Black." The melted return from the late crushing is 9260zs sdwts gold. . THAMES DEEP LEVEL TRIBUTE. As we surmised a day or two ngo ; the manager has received instructions to reduce the water below the 500 feet level. The bottom lift was connected yesterday afternoon, and pumping started at a speed of nearly seven strokes per minute. The pump is now throwing out, a, splendid stream of water. • ... . KUJRANUI HILL. The manager icported for last week as follows :—" Junction leaders: Nothing of note to communicate from this section since my last, the usual work going ahead as speedily as possible. Oddfellows: Leader improving as it goes.up; but nothing particularly worthy of mention. A few colors of gold visible occasionally, which is so far satisfactory. Albion': The leader in the main drive seems to improve the farther it is driven on, and looks better for gold at present than at any time since work was commenced on it. Very little change may be applied t« all parts of the mine.—T. H.Cbjcwfobd." THAMES GOLDEN CROWN.
The monthly returns of gold from this mine have lately shown a considerable improvement. Very little picked 'stone comes to hand at present, the gold all being from general dirt, which last month gave nearly an ounce per ton; ■ 'Several large blocks have been opened up on reefs which have yielded well in the ''past, and ! from all appearances payable crushing | dirt should be available for a long time yet. The bulk of crushing dirt is now coming from the JNTo.|2 reef in the Cure section. Driving is in progress on this body of quartz at the ,109 ft level in a north-easterly direction, and some distance back from the face : stoping is in progress. The drive is at present on the footwall of the reef, which is here about 10 or 12ft thick. About 3ft of quartz on the footwall looked veiy: f&rprable for gold, p.nd the centre also looked.--promising. The hangingwall portion has, noweyer, proved the best so far. The reef is vuggy, and carries a good deal of antimony and silvery mineral. In the stopes, the reef is very much the samß as in the drive, though hardly so large. -It also carries' more white' crystallized quartz. The other work in progress in the Cure section is a drive at the 170 ft. level on Clark's leader and a number of other vein's on the hangingwall of it, These vary in size from half an inch to two inches, and all show gold occasionally A number of veins cross from one to the* other, and where they junction a little gold is generally found. The whole of the leaders are shot down, and the muU lock is then picked out and the quartz sent to the mill. A leading stope has been carried on above the drive, and the men to-day are.timbering up, ; so as to stow away the mullock. At the intermediate level opened out westward from the winze sunk on No. 1 battery level reef, there is about two feet of quartz in hand, but the- junction of No. 2 reef is expected to be met with shortly. Stoping has been started- above this drive, and the reef in hand is about 2ft 6in. thick, carrying a kindly class of mineral. Driving is in progress on a number of veins on the footwall of Nos. 1 and 2 battery level reefs at the lOOfb level. The largest of these is about' a foot in thickness. The ' manager shortly intends to drive back westward on these veins towards the slide. The country now in the face is of w good class for gold, carrying a number of black mineral veins. The other work going on at this level is stoping on the footwall ler.der. The manager expected today to make a start with the continuation of the battery level. Tenders were called for the work, but only two were receive], and as these weie thought t-jo high, the work will ba pushed on with wages men.
, GOLD RETURNS. . KußANtri Hill. — Grubb and party have crushed 1 load for loz 7dwts gold. Caledonian.—Wilton and party have treated one load of general dirt and a few pounds of picked stone for sozi ldwt gold.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4274, 12 September 1882, Page 2
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736OUR MINES. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4274, 12 September 1882, Page 2
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