OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4784, 9 May 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

NEW PRINCE IMPERIAL.

The winding shaft is down 70ft below No. 5 level, making a total of 500 ft from the surface, and at this depth it is intended to open out Jo. 6 level. The timbering up of the shaft is now being gone on with, and the chamber will probably be commenced next week. The distance to No. 2 reef is estimated at 100 feet, but the hard bar being absent, it will not take long to traverse this, and once the reef is opened up, the excellent prospects met with in sinking the winze augur well for its richness. CALEDONIAN. The eastern drive on the Red Queen leader at NiA&level is at a standstill for the present, the men having been removed to the winze. The reef is still disturbed here, and work had to be stopped yesterday on account of gns accumulating. A door has, however, been erected in the level, and air-boxes put in the wioze, 'which will enable the men to resume operations to-morrow. The' stopes are looking about the same as usual. KURUNUI HILL. No work has been done from the Albion shaft lately, it having been discovered that the last 50ft of the drive on No. 6 reef was in the Deep Level Cross ground. Arrangements are now pending between the two companies. The ris^e on No. 9 reef above tunnel level is in progress as usual, but no gold has been st-en. The manager has also started driving on some striDgers a short distance from the mouth" of the Moanatairi tunnel. DARWIN.The crushing, of the dirt taken from the winze before it entered the Cambria ground and the western drive at the 150 ft level was completed to-day for the yield of 6ozs sdwts gold. SI loads were treated, the winze dirt giving lOdwtsper load.