Waiorongomai Mining

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4992, 12 January 1885, Page 3

Waiorongomai Mining

Although the holidays are over, work his not yet been generally resumed, and • foU afprt in aU the claims will not be j Blide before Monday. Some of the contact parties m the New Find mine hare agftin settled down to labour, pud others jre about to do so. In. the Colonist a | change in the system of operations has been introduced, it hav'ng been decided that wherever practicable the work shall be done by contract. Tenders have been accept d for atop;ng and for dn'virgin the low level, pnd these weks will be immedi atelj started. A few wages men rre engaged in breaking out stone at the north end of tbe No. 2 level. {Vbm which place the 34 ton parcel that yielded 29ozs was taken prior to tbe holidays. Tbe Diamond Gully is in full work, the shpes being again manned and stone of everege quality coming therefrom. It is intended shortly to resume the sinking of the winze put down some 15 feet below the floor of the level a few months ago,and ml wbicb excellent sLuff was obtained. Should the same prospects continue, preparations will quickly be made for commencing a low level. In the Waiorongomai Claim also, work is again in fuH swing. Dating has been resumed in the low level on the naf at the north t of the ground, and tbe intermediate lis also being carried on. Tne hopand shoot for tbe workings at the south end are approaching completion, and in another week or ten days things will bein a sufficiently forward state to admit of stuff being forwarded to tbe battery. The May Queen Co. are pushiog the low level chead. From the hangingwu'l portion of the reef stone yielding geed prospects is now being got, rod as the 'ace is fast approaching the bottom of the lower winze, a further improvement may be looked for. In the Inverness, Pbonrx, andCanadie j operations are going on, but nothing of importance has turned tip in these mines. The tremway is idle, there Laing no steff in the hoppers at tbe mines to keep the men employe J. A suffi eient quantity will probably have accumulated before tbe middle of next week, when a freih st r rt will be made. The only work at present going on at the battery is the grinding of tailings for the New Find Co. The sound of stampers ws!l not be heard for a few days yet. The parly sent out by the Prospecting Association rre at work in the neighbor* hr 3d of the head of Sfrmey Creek. They have succeeded in finding very good surface prospects, and are now engaged puttHg in a drive to test the reef from which the gold is supposed to have come. Loose stones yielding goci mortar prospects also abound in the vicinity, and there is every reason to believe that the search for pay* ing reefs oh this side of tbe mountain will yet be successful. —News.