OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4427, 13 March 1883, Page 2

OUR MINES.

DEEP LEVJKL CROSS

A haul of BOlbs of good picked stone i and specimens was bagged yesterday afternoon. They came chit fly from the stopes, but a few pounds were also obtained from the reef in the drive. The stopes continue to look well all through. The junction of the hanging wall leader and the bodyof quartz lately met with has been reached, and there is now about2f feet of good solid quartz in the drive. The gold has hitherto come from the footwall portion of this, but the hangingwall is well mineralised, and looks as promising as the other. NEW MANUKA.U. The winze from the Waiotahi bottom level is now down 39 feet, about 20 feet of which is in the Manukau ground. The country continues of a favorable class both for the existence of gold and for working,' but the leader is disturbed by a crosshead which was met with last week, and which is still in the winze. The quartz, however, looks well, and gold may be seen any time. The manager reported on Saturday as follows :—"Your crosscut has not? been driven a distance of 154 ft from starting point. The reef mentioned in my last.has been gone through, and is fully 3ft in thickness, carrying some good minerals, but no gold was seen. It is without exception the best looking quartz yet intersected. The crosscut has been driven some 12 feet past it through good country, clean of all quartz. The reef is about the distance No. 6-Cure should'be met with, but whether it is or not is hard to say. I shall get the surveyor down as soon as he comes from up country, and get them marked on the plan." KURANUI HILL. The manager reported yesterday:— "The works at the 80it Albion level are going ahead in a very satisfactory manner so far as work is concerned, but although the lodes bear a very promising appearance, very little gold has been seen lately. Nevertheless my confidence in eventually dropping on something good remains the same. A leading stope is being carried along oh the Wheel of Fortune lead, and it continues the same as in the drive. The footwall or Cook's lode, on which the winze was started from beach level, appears to be a very likely one, carrying splendid walls and in a very fine class of sandstone for gold bearing lodes. It varies from 4 to 10 inches in thickness, and is impregnated with a good class of mineral. A few feet of reef was broken down, but no gold was seen. However, it has had so little done on it that this cannot go against its future. Most of the pipes and rods'are to the surface. It has been rather a troublesome fob in consequence of having to' wiud mullock and quartz every other day, thereby apparently extending the time which was required , for their extraction. I think, however, the end of this week will pretty well finish.—Thos. H. Cbawfobd."