OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4666, 18 December 1883, Page 2

OUR MINES.

DEEP LEVEL CKOSS.

All the quartz from the leader passed through in the rise above the 640 ft level has been picked off the mullock tip ; there was not quite a load. It will probably not be put through till the leader has been picked up at the level, which cannot be done till the rise Ijas holed through to the winze | and ventilation been secured. Cleaning up and retorting will take place on Monday next. KURANUI HILL. The manager reported yesterday as follows :—" No. 9 : The drive on this reef is now in a splendid class of country, and a little gold was seen in the reef in the face of the drive, or about 40ft ahead of the stopes. It is more compact now than since the break crossed it, and it certainly looks better than it has done for some distance. In the stopes the lodes look very well; a few colors of gold were seen in stripping the quartz on the vertical Jeader, which has not been broken down yet, but will be during the week. All the hands are now breaking quartz on the main lode, except those working on the small lead. —T. H. Cba"wFOBD." QUEEN OP BEAUTY. The contractors for the crosscut to the Vanguard reef at No. 8 level are making good progress, being in 80ft. A number of small stringers have been cut lately, but they have shown no gold. The Bird- ! in»Hand reef should be close at hand. The total distance from the shaft is 350 ft. The No. 10 level crosscut from the seaward drive, the only other work in i progress at present, has passed through one of the two branches of the reef expected to be met with, and should cut the other in 30ft. The country is a good sandstone. The branch just passed is five feet thick, but is mullocky at present. The manager intends to drive seaward on it, when the crosscut is finished. MARINER. The winze started at No. 4 level on the footwali branch of the cross-leader is now down over 30ft, the leader, though small, I showing gold at each breaking, and yielding a few picked stoned The hangingwall branch has come in, the dig being carried down between the two bodies, but none of j it has yet been broken. LONDON. The crushing of 32 loads of general dirt and 40lbs picked stone, from the stopes on No. 1 reef above No. 3 level, was finished this afternoon, and yielded the payable return of 36ozs 6dwts gold. Stoping is still being continued, and gold is seen each breaking, down. GOLD RETURNS. Moanataibi.—Lukie and party have crushed 10 tons for 7ozs 15dwts, and Dabb and party's crushing produced 3ozs 9dwts gold.