OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4691, 19 January 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

QUEEN OF BEAUTY.

This company's shares have been in demand during the past day or two at advanced prices, owing no doubt to the prospects at No. 9 level. Some days ago the manager started driving towards the shaft at this level on a branch of the main reef in the hangingwall of the northern drive. He was, however, compelled to discontinue this on account of the ventilation being bad, and started fossicking on the leader alongside the shot of gold. A color or two of gold was found, and a winze has been commenced. The leader was broken down in this for the first time today. The quartz averages afoot in thickness, carries a large amount of favorable mineral, and showed a few colors of gold. This branch of the reef dips away to the northwest of the stopes worked by Mr Wilson on the shaft side of the slide, but is probably identical with the leader from which he got the gold on the hillside. It is therefore untouched at No; 10 level on top of the slide.

KURANUI HILL. The manager is losing no time: in opening up ready for working the Hazelbank tributers' leader at the tunnel level, and by Wednesday morning he expects to have things ready to commence driving both ways on it, and also to start stoping. The stopes on the hangingwall branch of No. 9 reef are looking: about the same. It is probable that a crushing will take place before the end of the month. DAEWIN. The reef in the winze just started from the 150 ft chamber was broken down today for a depth of two feet.. It is about 18 inches wide, and yielded a few pieces of picked stone, colors and dabs of the precious metal being also seen through the general dirt. Progress for the first few feet will necessarily be slow, as everything has to be taken out with the pick, it being unsafe to use powder, owing to the nearness of the timbers. ' ■