Ohinemuri Goldfield.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4599, 1 October 1883, Page 2

Ohinemuri Goldfield.

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Paeeoa, Saturday. Hattbaki G.M.Co.—Stoping operations in this mine are now being vigorously prosecuted, and the stopes are yielding a large quantity of good crushing dirt, upon the reduction of which the battery is being kept fully employed. Cleaning up and retorting for this company will take place as soon as 300 tons of quartz have been treated, which will be accomplished in about ten days'time. • Exceesiob.—This claim bounds the Hauraki on the sasternside, and contains 24 men's ground. When the County track was beins? carried over this ground a lode about 2 feet in thickness was intersected by the contractors. It is partly composed of solid stone and partly of decomposed quartz intermixed with sandstone, gold permeating the whole mass, which is said to be worth from 3 to sozs per ton. ,

Woisley.—This claim is now being prospected by' Mr Norman McGreuen, who has already unearthed six distinct lodes, varying from six inches to as many feet in thickness. These lodes are running parallel, and all of them carry more or less gold.

Golden Cbown, Keep it Dark, Retbeat, and Southern Cboss.—Pending arrangements for amalgamation, there is no work going on in these claims at present. It is proposed to form these well-knowa golden claims into one large company, with a view to securing a suitable, crushing plant, which could be erected immediately below the proposed company's ground.

Hidden Teeasttbe : Operations in both tunnels _ have been suspended, but I believe it is the intention of the directors to start a low level 50 feet lower down the spur than where the No. 1 level was started,|so as to get under the shot of gold exposed to view on the Thames County road. Meantime some of the shareholders are prospecting on the surface, where they have already met with very encouraging prospects.

Dubeo.—The low level tunnel is now being driven along the course of the reef, which averages 5 feet in thickness, showing gold on both walls, and yielding handsome mortar prospects throughout the whole body of the stone.

Ivanhoe G.M.Co.—-The tramway con» necting this company's mine with the Hauraki company's battery is now fast approaching completion, and will be ia working order about the middle of the ensuing month. Notwithstanding the hard nature of the belt of country encountered in driving the low level tunnel, the contractors are making fair headway, and the underlie of No. 1 reef should be met with in another 50 feet of driving.

Midas.—The shareholders here started to drive a tunnel so as to intersect the dip of a reef which they cut in a trench on the surface. A trial crushing from this lode, treated at the Thames some time ago, yielded at the rate of 2|ozs. per ton.