Weiorongomai Mining

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5011, 3 February 1885, Page 3

Weiorongomai Mining

" 'BitTEßT:—Daring last week, the New Fiod Company crashed 60 tracks of stuff, . which 'yielded 430z« retorted gold and from'tailings 43ozs mpre was got, making ' the*return for this company 86ozs. The i 4 Colonist Company had 45 truck loads .treated, the yield from which was 9ozs ' lQdjrU. The rainfall that commenced on " Thursday has the water-races,, and \ itamperi and'berdans Tare now in full .work. :,-.. - . New Find —Driving has been resumed N in the north end of the low level, a con* tract for extending it 150 feet hating been let. There is nothing new to record concerniog the other" parts of the mine, the cruibiflß stuff sent to the battery being of much the same quality, as usual. Co^oKisT.-rThe drire southward in the low level it now near the Canadian boundary. -The-gold bearing part of the lode it small, there being only about two feet of crushing stuff. Operations hare been suspended in the face going northward, the quartz last obtained there having been of ' Very poor quality. Sloping is going on over the low level, but without any important results. The returns for last week ■how that the stuff generally has been of poorer grade than usual. PitSMHB. —Work has been commenced in the intermediate drive from the winze. ■below the smithy level, and fair crushing •tuff is coming to - hand. Gold is seen pretty freely in about a foot of the lode, but the remainder is too poor to be worth saving. Some gold bearing atone has re. centlybeen found in the outcrop of the No. 2 reef, between the upper and smithy levels, and a considerable portion of it baa been stripped, and is now ready forbreaking down. If the surface show continues downward a good deal of payable stuff is likely to be got there. /c-lfrXT QtTßßF.—PayaWe stuff ia being got id »toping out tUe block over the

, tramway but nothing exceptionally rich : has yet been found. In the low level U>* ! reef has a most favorable appearatuo, but it has not ,»o far shown gold bo freely as it did in the upper workings. '■'.. InVEBNES3.-—Attention is being givr-n ! wholly to the blocking out of the reef I above the upper level. Some fair stone has lately been found, and gold of a coarser quality than usual obtained in Ih* main portion of the reef. If the present 'show continues, the next crushing (which j will shortly be ready for the battery) is i likely to give a much better return th.m the last one. Pbospectikg Association.—The full strength of the party is still employed in testing the reef discovered near the Bising Sun claim at the head of Stoney creek. A drive was started and carrind in some distance, but owing to the broken nature of the ground, and the difficulties met with, tunnelling was discontinued, and the lode is now being sunk on. As far as it has been followed downward excellent loose prospects of coarsest gold have been got, and the stone also gives a fair show occasionally when pounded.. There , can. i hardly be any doubt that paying reefs exist in the locality now being tried, and the encouraging results that have so far attended the Association's operations in that quarter, induce the belief that a new scene of mining activity will ere long be there opened, up.—News.