OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4814, 13 June 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

QUEEN OF BEAUTY,

Several tenders were received to-day for the extension of the seaward drive, at JSTo. 8 on the Vanguard reef, lCOft, and they were forwarded to Auckland unopened for the directors' dispoial. No breaking down of the reef at No. 7 level took place to-day/and the other workings present no change to report. ROCKY POINT. Another breaking of the reef in the second stope to-day produced about lOlbs of picked stone, bringing the-total on hand to about 80ibs. The point which the stope has now reached is above the place where the reef was best in the stope below, but it is looking much better now than it did then, while the show of "the precious metil visible in the roof augurs well for the quality of the third stope. The reef in face is 18in. wide, but the gold is chiefly seen in the hangingwall rein. The reef was broken in the southern ( drive to-day; it ha 3 opened put to a fioe body of stone 18 inches wide, but though the indications and minerals are the same as, those which accompany the gold in the stope, the precious metal was not observed. The manager expects to be able to push on work more vigorously next week. 1 JSIEW FIND (WAWRONGOMAI). The manager reports-.—Since last report good crushing dirt isi still comiDg to hand from stope<3 No. 2 reef, No. 6 contract. N Fair crushing dirt is also coming from stopes, No. "5 rrafjNo. 8 contract. Winze, No. 2 reef, No. 4 contract, is down a depth of 72 feet, the reef being scarcely so large, but showing good gold the last eight feet of breaking down. I am well pleased with carrying gold down on No. 2 reef to low level, showing that there is every prospect of gold going down in our field, making it more permanent.