OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4305, 18 October 1882, Page 2

OUR MINES.

CALEDONIAN. The two chief points of interest in this mine at present are the specimen leader at No. 2 level and No. 1 reef above No. 1 level in the Otago section. In the former place the drive from the Cure crosscut has been cleaned out to the prospecting winze, and is at a standstill for the present. A rise was put up a distance of 10 feet on the leaders, gold being seen all the way, and the men are sloping both ways from this. As soon as the leading stbpes are in, and the passes fixed, the manager will cut out a chamber about 20 feet from the Cure cross* cut, aDd start sinking a winze to open up an intermediate level from the shaft. He thinks it will ba better to sink the winze here than to continue the prospecting winze, on account of the water in the latter. A considerable amount of quartz is vow coming from here, which should prove payable. One good feature in connection with it is that, the dirt obtained from the bottom of the winze is much richer than that from the stopes. No. 1 reef: The manager isynpw stopipg over the old drive broken into from the drive at top of Capt. Richards' rise. The reef is very large, bub only about 3ft of the footwall portion is at present beinp saved. As two trial crushing from the top of Mr Hicks' rise through old stopes yielded over 3ozs. per load, and one fr<-m the same reef further east also gave a fair jetur.n^the ; .djirt now coming *1o hand should prove remunerative. The next parcel crushed from here will be a pretty large one, as already nearly a hopper full of quartz is broken out. The drive east on the No. 2 reef from the top of the rise is stopped for the present. ' ALBOBNIA. The junction of McLean's reef and Dixon's reef was niet with in the rise on' the latter yesterday, and it .was no doubt this that made the large "blow" in the reef. The manager intends to continue the rise on McLean'sTeef, as the country is dryer. About 4lbs of specimens were obtained from it this morning; the body of quartz is from 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches thick. Dixon's reef past the junction is between four and five feet wide. :.