OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4790, 16 May 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

DEEP LEVEL CROSS, ], The.company's- operations at the 640 ft level having so.-far proved unproductive of anything of a.remunerative character, th<) directors have determiued to stop work there for the present. It is a great pity that tbe directors find themselves unable to continue operations, as* the country is favorable for gold-bearing lodes, and very little prospecting has yet been done. Driving ceaward is to be resumed on the Calclonian reef'at-the; . 400 ft level. ROCKY POINT. , -, Eetortin^ took place this afternoon for the ex ellent yield of 53ozs gold, an average of over 2ozs per load, the quantity crushed, being 25 loads. This proves beyond doabfc the payableness of the lode, and augurs well for the prospects of the company when stoping operations arc fairly in band, which will be the case when the hoppers are finisht 1. , :. x DART. ; t A very satisfactory yield has b^ea"^ obtained from a trial parcel out of th»T Alir-d le. der at No. 2 level. It will be " remembered that scon after driving was': st .rted, tbe reef showed gold freely. Tho dirt taken from here was undoubtedly payab'e, and fifes not therefore put through the mill tcp rately. On extending tbe drivea few feet i'urther, however, tbe reef changed its character, beoming^ he:vily mineralised, and showing no gold when broken. It is from, this poiut that the two loads just treated were ' t .ken. No amalgam was obtain, d from the [plates, but the yield from tbe ber- - de.ns justifies the manager in estimating ', the dirt as ,worth fully l^ozs pec loed, which is a capilal y; e!d. A stope willat once be- carri d alorg the drive, another, p reel of 10 or 12 lo:.ds put through the battery, and if tbe return proves a: good as there is every reason to expeefc it wlllj no lime will be lost id opening up the ' block. The other workings in the mine • present no change to report, payable \ gride quartz still coming to hand from] the stope-i above No. 3 level, and satisfactory progress being made with .the sinking of the shaft. . ;