OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4581, 10 September 1883, Page 2

OUR MINES.

<.■■ NEW PKINCE IMPERIAL. The manager reported on Saturday as follows:—" There has been 182 loads of quartz reduced at the batteries daring the past week for the yield of 6850zs of amalgam; 37 head of stampers are still employed. The chamber for the winze on No. 2 lead at No. 5 level, will be completed in a few days. The winze has been sunk a few feet to allow the brace timbers to be placed in position. There was a small portion of the lead broken out today, which is about 10 inches thick. The stone looks well, but no gold was seen. Bcwt. of specimens and picked stone have come to hand from all parts of the mine this week. In the ninth Btope on No. 2 lead above No. 5 level Sewt were obtained yesterday, leaving still a good show of gold both in the face and back of the stope. The lead was again broken down to-day in this I stope, and 301bs of good stone were got. The face is now forward past the run of I gold. In the back of this stope the lead is much larger than it has been for some time, but the show of gold is not so good as it was in the back of the eighth stope. The eighth stbpe, which is now 10ft through the break, produced 701 bs of stone yesterday. The lead here continues to look Well, being a fine strong body of quartz nearly 2ft. thick, gold being freely distributed all through it. In the seventh stope the lead is eren larger'than in the eighth, and shows gold quite as freely, but did not produce any specimens or picked stone last breaking down. The sixth stope is within 14ft. of the boundary, and is being carried along on the hangingwall branch, to connect with the Beep Level Cross winze, so that the air can be turned in that direction to carry away the powder smoke from their men, clear of our stopss. The leading stope on JSo. 1 reef at No. 4 level is now within 30 feet of the face of the drive, and after next week driving can be resumed, Stopingon this reef is being carried on as usual, and a large amount of good crushing dirt is coming to hand, especially from the slopes on the seaward side of the break, where the reef i s very large, and is looking better than it has done since leaving the level.— G. S. GIAEK." ' .DART. , The dam at No. 2 level was opened on Saturday night, and the pump, working 13| strokes per minute, had No, 3 level clear of water in 18 hours. The men were to-day engaged cleaning up the level and removing the dam, but this will be all completed by tomorrow night, when the manager will start sinking a winze on the No. 2 reef from a point eastward of the crosscut. The No. 3 level crosscut is in 154 ft, and the No, % reef should be to hand in anqtfcer aQft of driving. The hard, country has been passed through, and the faoe is now in excellent white sandstone, favorable both for gold and progress. A parcel of two loads has been taken from the underhand stopes started on the specimen leader at No. 2 level. The quartz showed gold freely. The battery has been put i« re, pair, and crushing should fee qtsu?ted in about a fortnight MOANATAIEI. Saturday's lodgment of gold was reduced on melting to-day to 2580zs 12dwts. The manager reported for'last week ai follows:-—"132ffc level; We a?e driving on a promising lead, which shows a little gold occasionally, and which junctions with No.; 9; it is from "I to 8 ioehes in ' thickness, The footwall portion of No. 9 is being stoped. The general stuff continues to shape payable, and small parcels of picked stone are frequently met with. We have to-day retorted 16Oozs gold, jaaost of which came from 13.2/t. le?el. 125 tons general stuff and 1201bs picked stone bare

been treated for the above return.- There is an extensive and promising block to work from this level. Guturie and party's crushing of 65ozs 14dwts was taken about 100 feet above and just on the same run las the company's workings. They did fonr months' dead work before striking the leader, and have been six weeks taking out the above crushing.—J. G. Vivian."