OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4347, 6 December 1882, Page 3

OUR MINES.

NEW PBINCE IMPERIAL.

Since starting on Friday last, the shaft hag been sunk about six or seven feet. The reef showed colors of gold when it was taken down, and a few pounds of picked stone were obtained from it on Monday night; gold is showing in a leader on the footwall.on east side of the shaft. The reef is now in the extreme northern end of'the shaft, and will no doubt dip out of it a few feet lower down.^ The croBS-cat to-intersect the Mariner's reef has been driven about eight feet through good country. Two or three small veins of quartz, apparently feeders to No. 2 reef, have been passed through. The stopes continue to look well, and;a few pounds of picked stone are obtained from those west of the break when the leader is tftfean down. The drive is timbered witfei2 ; 3o feet of the Cross boundary, the leacHSg itope is well advanced, and the ■second stope is about 30 feet from the break. The fourth stope from the winze is close to the break, and the fifth has just been started. Eastward the men We lately been timbering up the drives on the main and footwall reefs, but were to start in the face to day. The furnace under the air shaft at No. 1 level acts well, and creates a good current of air. In order to increase the draught at the eastern end the manager has hung bags across the drive, a few feet west of the shaft, to stop the draught in that directlOn'MAlMNEß AND LONDON. The manager yesterday effected com-, munication between the Crown Princess and Exchange shafts, the result being an immediate implement in tbe air. It will take a day or two more to clean out the drive, and he will then start to convey the draught created to the levels below He will thus be able to get them ventilated by the time winding machinery is erected, OTTJNTJIAbout eight pounds of specimen stone from the New Eureka Company were banked yesterday. The reef in the ■outh. western drive i has lately been pinched H. wry small by a head, but is JJakSf «gSn » the face. Tbe

stone was got before the head was come upon.—Oriental: The main reef in this claim atso has been pinched in by a clay seam, from the influence of which it is just getting clear. The veins of quartz are scattered, but Mr Bruce expects them to come together in a few feet of drivings He got about 151bs of good stone from one of them this morning, and left a fine show ofgold in the roof. The stone is blue in nature and vuggy, the gold being close grained, and accompanied by good minerals. KUBANUI HILL. Crushing was started yesterday morning upon Company and tributers' quartz. Dabb's leader has been intersected at the Shotover level, and driving on it eon?^ menced. SlyllM§3