OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4947, 17 November 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

NEW PRINCE IMPERIAL,

The manager reported on Saturday : — 11 The crosscut at No. 7 level has been extended 20ft during the week, which makes the total length now from the chamber 89ft. There is still 46ft to be driven to reach the lead. No. 6 level: The eastern drive on the No. 2 lead has now advanced 20ft from the winze. The country is a very favorable sandstone, and a little gold has been seen in the quartz, but the lead is not very well defined yet. In the stopes westward of the braak the lead is looking about the same, and there has been 501bs of specimens and picked stone obtained during the week. As the stores in this section ascend, the lead should improve, as the. hangingwall and footwall branches run together near the break. The lead is still small in the two stopes which are in hand eastward of the break, but good crushing dirt is being obtained, with occasionally a few pounds of picked stone. There is nothing fresh of importnnce to report from the eastern stopes above No. 5 level, which are being continued as usual.—G. S. Clack." CAMBRIA. The reef at the 230 ft. level has now i been driven on over 20ifc. eastward of the winze, about 4ft. of the quartz beiug broken out. In shooting down this morning the good haul of forty pounds of specimens was bagged, and what is still better, gold was .left showing. The precious metal was found chiefly about a foot from the hangiugwall, and the stones were of good quality, but gold was also seen throughout the other portion of the dirt broken. CALEDONIAN. Payable dirt continues to come to hand from the eastern drive on the Red Queen leader at No. 2 level. This is very encouraging, and when stoping is started a good deal of crushing stuff should be turned out. At No. 3 level a change of country for the better has taken place in the crosscut towards the Red Queen leader. After driving 103 ft, nearly all of which is through extremely hard rock, a good sandstone has come in, and appears likely to continue. Should this prove to be thecase,progress will be much more rapid, and the remainder of the distance to be driven should quickly be traversed. BRIGHT SMILE. Crushing was started this morning at the Queen of Beauty battery, with ten head of stampers. The quantity of dirt to be treated is not large, about 20 loads, all from the footwall leader, but a payable return is expected at the cleaning up towards the cud of tjie- week. GOLD RETURNS. Magnolia.—Smith and party, tribu* ters, have banked loz. ldwt, gold. Ktjranui Hii,l.—.Trembath and party have finished a crushing for 3ozs 9dwts | gold,