OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4863, 11 August 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

NEW PJRINCE IMPERIAL.

.The manager reported on Saturday as follows :—'*JSo. 6 level: The shaft has been sunk Bft. below the chamber, and the remaining distance will now be done by contract, for which I have called tenders. The western drive on the No. 2 load is now in 112 ft. During the last few days the ground has been rather harder, and not of as. good quality. The lead has also been very small, iand has not shown much gold. To'daj? the lead looks-much better, but the ground still continues rather rough and hard. :In the eastern drive, which is in 103 ft., the lead is still small, but continues to show gold freely where the quartz ia anyway solid..! The slopes here are now well in hand, and although the lead in places is small, a good deal of crushing dirt is being broken out; which continues to shape very fair- at tho battery. There has been about 2 c<vt of specimens and picked.stoneobtained from this level since our;last cleaning up. No. 5 level: Driving eastward on the No. 2 lead was resumed to-day..; The lead in the leading stope showed> a 'considerable improvement last breaking down, and.produced a few pounds of very good stone. I am not sure, but that it is the No. .3 lead that the drive and front atopes are being advanced on, and that the No; 2 has been left in the hangingwall. , The remainder of the'stopes here are looking about the same. The south prospecting crosscut is being carried on with one shift, but there' is no sign of liny lead yet. No. 4 level: Sloping on the No. 2 lead and hanging/ wall vein is proceeding as usual, and the quartz continues to'shape about the same. No. 3 level:. The No; 1 reef has not yet been cut in the eastern drive, through the No. 2 break. There is,no change to report from the stopes here.—Gr. S. Clabk."

QUEEN OF.BEAUTY. The. directors have determined to further open up the Vanguard lode at No. 8 level, and tenders for driving (probably seaward) 100 ft.' will bereceived to mor row. Driving hillward is also likely to be commenced shortly. Afc Ko. 7 level the manager is crosscuttirig for Bice's leader, and it should be to hand in a day or two. '■ -:ly ADELAIDE. The winze from the old smithy level holed through to the General Chute level oa greatly, improving the; ventilation. ■ The propietors;'will pro bably start stoping ,tho blocTs- now opened up without delay.: - ; ■ '■.: Cc;]- ■■ : ;y^ocKi point. ':.;:£.'->::-; The ventilation having been improved by the Adelaide winze holing through, the manager -will put more men into the stopea iv hand, and will also probably commence opening out oa the cross-leaders .shortly/ The leader was broken on] Saturday" in the third stops; iAbout 7)bs of picked fitpnfl! were baggeij, while the geqeral dirt

showed gold very freely, and the precibui metal was.left showing all along thsroof. In -the second slope (over the southern drive) the lead was; also brok<?n r yielding ;4!ba of good stbns, and gold being left in the roof. '•■ "■' ■' :.'■■ '- .'..■■■■■.■. ■'■- :'""■::■ -■h''- ■■- .•.' ;rlO ANATAIRI. ,Y--V ■ '[% \ ■Themanager reported for last week :^ "No; 9,above 132 ft. level: The prospecting drive referred to in my last has been extendedl 24ft. east of winze; The re*ef for that "distance will average 15in. in thick ness, but the quartz,is of low..grade. The drive has been stopped for the present, and stoping resumed both east and west of , winze. It is at this point where we hope to pick up Guthrie's run of gold. The leader in western slope has been broken down during the past week, producing only a few pounds of good picked stone; colors- were seen pretty; freely. The lead maintains its usual healthy appearance for gold.; Waite- ; mata section : The drive is being forced jonin 'a south-westerly direction; some of the quartz is of such a promising characar as to lead one to exp ct gold at any breaking. It would be of: great importance if a payable reef is discovered here, as it would-be intact to tire surface for a very considerable X ngth. The battery will continue to run for a few days, both for company and tributers. — i.jy-Gr; Vivian."' '..;.. ;. : :;;>; . . .;.■.;•;. ,;• ••.'

CALEDONIAN LOW. LEYJiL

■ "' ; /,The face, of the 640 ft. level eastern crosscut is still goingthrough the hard bar, and the rock now beingp.enetrated is even worse than usual. -Five loads of quarlzr broken from the large reef lately passed through, o are now being treated at the Herald battery. * CAMBJRIA. Crushing was started at the Queen of. Baauty battery to day, five head of stamps being employed. The bulk of the dirt is from the footwall leaders, and this will give a good * payable yield, while a trial from the main lode will also be crushed. CALEDONIAN. Fivo head of stamps are still employed at the Herald battery on dirt from No. 2 level. At No. 3 level, the leader on which the contractors started work is still in good country, and the manager is in hopes that by following it he. will avoid the hard bar; The leader is as yet very white, but it will probably improve as driven on, and may yet, the manager thinks, turn out to be a branch of- the Eed Queen leader. MOANAT^IRI EXTENDED. A clay seam was cut by the cohlraclora on Saturday, and an increased volume of water is now met with, necessitating the pumps being kept constantly in motion. The contractors are making fair progress.

GOLD-HETUHNS:

MoANATAtBi.-—Johns and party have obtained 27pzs.;10dwts. gold from 4 tons quartz ;"G.. White and party have crushed 6 tons for :7ozsi lOdwts gold.