OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4357, 18 December 1882, Page 2

OUR MINES.

; ■ ■ ■;• ■■ ■" • Caledonian: ■■■ •; ,-.'r vv; ' A cross-reef was met with in the Bed Queen crosscut on Friday last, striking north west and south-east. It is about 15 inches thick, composed of a clay for*,, mation mixed with quartz, and carrying a large amount of a floury kind, of stone, considered a capital indication for gold. Good colors of the precious metal were freely seen in breaking down, and a pound or two of picked stone and specimens was separated from the general dirt. The manager has not heard of this reef being met with before in the Red Queen .workings, and as. its present course would strike right through the mine, he is in hopes of being able. to get good payable crushings from it. The cross-reef should also junction with the reefß and leaders Mr Hicks, is in search of, and it is quite possible it f , wiil either make good gold itself or greatly enrich the other bodies of quartz at the point of contact. i*The crosscut will be pushed on as quicklyfas possible towards the nearest bid workings in order to improve the ventilation, after which driving will be commenced on the new lode. moanataiei. : ; (! The manager's report for the week is aj follows :—" Heldt's section: The quartz in stopes above 132 ft level has been of better quality the last few day a, and „ yielded parcels of picked stone. No. 2 r reef west of winze below tunnel level is rather smaller than usual, but.it still», looks very likely for gold. . Redan section, 80ft level: No. 9 footwall lead is being stripped. Morning Star section: The intermediate crosscut referred to in my last has since been extended 20 feet,. ~ : the last five feet of winch intersected'three small leaders, (the saoie we are working at and above s)ft level.) Two ot these showed colors frejljr when driving through them. Nonpareil sections It will take a day or two yet to get through the old workings we struck, a few days ; . since. The men who svero uro^pacting ? for the payable leader worked by the Don ,* Pedro tributers have been renamed in order to get quartz for the battery. ■ 20 .-> head are beintj employed*on company's and their tributers' stuff atpresent, land ~u* 20 head-are occupied for outside parcels. - I expect to retort on Friday aext.~^J. G. -■' "Vivian.". . , .■ ■ _ ; r■■

MARINER AND LONDON.

Since communication was effected between the Crown Princess and Exchange shafts, the; manager has beeh^engaged cleaning but a winze between Wos- 2 and 3 levels on No. 2 reef. This was progressing favorably, and the men were within about 30 feet of the next level, when the gas became too much for them, and work had to be'stopped both on Saturday and to-day, all efforts to dis- ■■ lodge the unwelcome visitor being unavailing, owing to no communication other. ■ than the main shaft existing between No. 2 and the lower levels; " ■ ' . . GOLD RETURNS. Kuranui Hill.—Le Manquais and party's parcel of 9 tons gave the good yield of 52ozs ldwt gold. Dabt.—Four leads treated for Greenville and party yielded the good return of 34ozs 17dwts gold. Queen op Beauty.—Connolly and party are putting through 17 loads of dirt . from their leader in the footwall of the Queen of the May reef, and an interim retorting on Saturday gave the rich result of 178ozs 7dwtß gold. This party deserve ; their good fortune, as they have spent about nine months doing dead work to open up the ground.