OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4322, 7 November 1882, Page 2

OUR MINES.

MOANaTAIEI,

Retorting for the month took place this morning for the capital yield of 2390zs gold, for which the small amount of 145 tons of general dirt have been crushed. The melted return was 234 ozs 18dwts.~ Quaelly and party, tributers, hare banked 12 ozs 5 dwts gold from fourteen loads. —The manager reported for last week ; — Heldt's section, 132 ft level: ' No. 9 reef and branch leaders have not shown any material change since my last; about 251bs of picked stone have been obtained during the week. Tuanel level, No. 2 reef: The winze we are sinking is 15 feet in depth, at the bottom of which there is a strong body^of kindly-looking quarta.some of it containing the most favorable class of minerals for gold. Sedan section, 80----feet level: The lead in footwall of No. 9 reef has produced strong blotches of gold since my la3t. It is being stripped r.t present. Nonpareil section, 21S feet level: The leaders we have in hand at this point show very favorable indications. They hare yielded 20H>8 of picked stone

during (he week. The country through .which these leaders traverse is first-class. Morning Star section : The leaders we are stoping and driving on are producing payable stuff.—J. G. Vivian. BRIGHT SMILE. ■* The manager broke down the 'eader in the intermediate level lately opened out from the stopes yesterday and obtained about 40lbs of picked stone and specimens. Gold was left showing in the face, roof, and floor of the drive. The lead, which is about 6 inches thick, looks exceedingly well here, and has produced picked stove and specimens every breaking down for a distance of 14ft back from the face, which is now in over 36 feet. A splice in the reef was come upon yesterday, but this has not altered the quality of the stone at all, good gold showing beyond it. The | country is of a favorable class, and a number of mineral veins strike into the reef, making gold wherever they junction. The drive at the low level and the stopes above it are being continued, and good dirt is coming to hand. The two hoppers are full, and the mauager will start carting next week. Crushing will be started at the A'burnia battery as soon as the quartz on hand has been put through. The amount to be treated will be about 30 loads, all of which Mr Garvey considers worth 3 or 4ozs per load. CALEDONIAN. The 62 loads treated for the retura banked yesterday comprised 27 loads from the stopes on No. 1 reef, Otago section, above No 1 level; and 35 loads from the stopes and drive on the footwall specimeD leader, No. 2 level. 20 loads, made up of trial parcels from the rise Mr Hicks lately put up through old stopes on No. 1 reef above No. 1 level, 75ft east of the firs' rise, aud from some leaders at the top of Capt. Kichards' rise were also put through. The latter parcel gave 9dwts per load, but this is not payable to crush as the manager fees to at present, at so much per load. The quartz from the stopes on No. 1 reef, Otago section, j gate a good yield, but that from the specimen leader was not so good this time as last crushing. Ten head of stamps are still employed eight hours per day. SOUTHERN CROSS! The trial parcel of 5 loads from the winze being sunk on the boundary from the No. 3 level of the New Prince Imperial was finished and the amalgam retorted this morning. The yield was 68ozs, which was reduced to 66zs sdwts on melting. The specimen and picked stone, of which there were 801bs, yielded the good average of lodwts per pound, or a total of about 60ozs gold, and the general dirt a .little over an ounce per load.