OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5034, 2 March 1885, Page 2

OUR MINES.

, * CAMBBIA. The general dirt treated daring the past week has shaped for about the same avorsgo as during the previous week— 2ozs per load. The specimens on hand, iOOlba, were treated ftt the Kuranui Hill battery to*day, and will yield a fair average. Retorting takes place to-morrow

morning, and the return is sureto be:an excellent one, though hardly so good as that obtained last month. Another small dividend would be no surprise. NEW PKINCE IMPERIAL. . The manager reported on Saturday : — The slopes above JN fo. 7 level are showiog a considerable improvement as they ascend. The lead, although still very white, shows gold pretty freely, andoccasionnllj a few pounds of picked stone* are selected. In the slopes above No. 6 level, the lead has not been so large as it was, but good payable dirt is still being obtained. ; There is a branch of this lead striking off into the footwali, which "I do riot think we have taken out above No. 5 level. The eastern stopes on No. 2 lead above No. 5 level have been iv progress as usual, but I am ucablo to say what tha dirt is worth, as there has been no quantity crushed for tho past week, I have therefore suspended operations; here until the dirt is passed through the battery. The stopes. on tho !>'o. 3 lead in the same section are, 1 am pleased to say, t-ontinuing. to produce payable dirt.-- T~tie eastern drive on this lead at No, 4 level has been extended 60ft,, but H3 the lead has not improved in size or quality I will ■uapebd work on it also. Tht> drive on No.

1 reef at JSTo-5 levnl being now tar enough past the winze which came down from No 4, a pass will be put in at OBee and an intermediate drive started from ike winze. The battery is still idle for want of water, and I have had to temporarily shprten. \ hands until the supply of quartz now on hand is crushed. —G. S. Clabk. MOANATAIRI EXTENDED. Gold was found to-day in a leader cut in the north crosscut from the shaft. It is reported to be good, but •wis)g*t»;*he ■ lateness of the hour we were unable to obtain fall partioultri. The monthly cleaning up took placs today for the - excellent yield of 2560zs lSdwts gold, reduced to 2530 is 9dwts on melting. ■• The quantity, of quarts erufbtd wagllßs tons "frohV all parti of the mine, chiefly from Nos. 2 and 3 reefs. : , : DABT. ... - :^ v v A leader six inches wide! was intersfoted in the No. ,3 level crosscut on Saturaay. The quartz was 'kindly and carried fair minerals. •''■-._*