OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume xv, Issue 4767, 19 April 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

QUEEN OF BEAUTY.

The hard country continuing in the Vanguard crosscut, the manager has determined to leave the cross-reef, which ig turning away too much to the lejEW: »nd crosscut straight for fchV^ree^^riliere' should cot be more than 50ft. to drive, and the hard rock will probably give place tos kindlier sandstone before lo&g. NEW EUBEKA (OTUNUI). The manager reports for the past fortnight as follows:—" I am pleased to say that we have passed through the hard bar in the low level, and are now in a fair class of country. The total distance driven up to date is 315 feet, which will leave us about 70 feet further to drive. I have also ventilated this level with a rise to the surface, the distance up being 31 feet. The surface quartz can now be brought to the bottom paddock through the rise, and I will start nest week to lay the tramway to the paddock. The engineers are at work at the battery, and should be finished with the alterations in a few days. The flume is finished and ready for use. I have also re fastened all of the buckeft in the water wheel.—Thos. Black." ' DART. The No. 2 reef in tbe eastern drive at No. 3 level is very large, so the manager is only breaking about 2jft'of .the footwall portion. This was shot down during yesterday and to-day, and though Ho gold was seen, the quartz is of a very kindly description, and the indications are such that the precious metal nay be met with at any time. No gold was seen in the Alfred lead at No. 2 level last breaking, but the dirt, which carries a lot of mineral, is being saved for a trial, crushing. The stopes continue,to look well, the dirt shaping for a good payable yield. ",'■.•; '7

BELCHES. Mr Workman has two shifts engaged ■ in this claim, and they are *ut present putting down a shaft to catch the underlie of the reef, from the outcrop of which the trial parcel was recently crushed. The shaft is down 43ft., and up to yesterday the country sunk through was merely a stiff clay slide. A rein of rubbly quartz, about (Bin. wide, and in which a few colors of gold have beau found, was passed through just below the slide, and an excellent class of white; sandstone, with mineral veins crossing it, was come upon underneath this. The reef should be to hand in another lOft. at' the outside, and judging by the country, it,will be of good quality. h^;;/ ADELAIDE. :' ■ '■'-'■■ -. ThefreeFhas now been driven on fully 60ft.,-aiid for the whole of that distance has carried gold. In the face it is split into three portions. The two/loqtwaU ones, which will average 6 or Bin. in width, show gold, but the bangingwall vein, though smaller, carries the precious metal most freely. A g9od pile of dirt is now- stacked at the mouth of the tunnel ready for ©rushing. ROTOKOHU. The Hauraki Tribune says that work in Hunt's claim was going on as usual, until Wednesday morning last, when a blue clay slide was met with, which out tlwr\ reef off. The proprietors, however,, pushed on work, and on Thursday afternoon picked up the reef, which is two feet* | wide and as good as ever. ,