OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5120, 15 June 1885, Page 3

OUR MINES.

CAMBRIA. Good mineral is still being carried in the intermediate level, colors of gold being seen. As patches of picked stone wen> found considerably further eastward at No. 2 lerel than the intermediate level has been stoped up to, the manager proposes to continue tlie intermediate drivo to test what the lode is eastward. No. 3 leTel presents little change. In the face a great width is being opened, so that it loots like a great cavern. Although no specimens are reported, the mineral is favorable and gold is being seen. The general dirt shaped remarkably well last week. V. ■ . DARWIN. There is little change at No. 3 level, colors of gold being seen occasiona'ly. As No. 2 level is blocked with quartz, the men have been removed from there to No 3 level where sloping has been commer c.d. The quartz being crashed is from No. 3 level, and the manager states it is shaping fairly. None of the quartz from the •topes above No. 2 level has yet been sent to the mill. ,j THAMES GOLDEN CROWN. No quartz has been broken down since Friday. Preparations for sinking the shaft were begun to-day. NEW PRINCE IMPERIAL. The manager reports for the past week as follows :—" The footwall branch of the No. 2 lead in the stopes on the western side of the break above No. 5 level is at present very small, being only a few inches thick, but gold is always freely met with, and a few pounds of picked stone selected every breaking dowD. The ground coming back to the break has got a good rfeal harder, which caused the lead to pinch in, but I expect as the stopes are extended westward the ground will be much easier, and the lode stronger. Four men are still employed stoping on the No. 4 lead, which I am sorry to say is looking no better. I have now a hopper-full of quartz on hand from here, which will be crushed this week to again test its value. The No. 1 reef in the stopes below No. 4 level is looking very well, and the quartz continues to shape well at the battery. On the western side of the break fully 3ft of crushing dirt is being taken out. . These stopes are now about 35ft in length from the break to the boundary, but will lengthen coming up, to 60ft. The last stope on the eastern side of the break to the winze is taken out, and the men have been removed to the intermediate drive going east on the footwall portion of the reef. I may mention that the reef divides here, the one portion running in the same direction as No. 4 level, while the other por. tion i« striking more into the hangingwall; both are at present being driven on. The hangingwall portion looks well, and a good deal of gold is seen through the stone. If this portion continues on as at present, I purpose sinking a winze on it down to No. 5 level, and extending the drive on that level to connect with the winze. This would Riie a very large block for working, which is nearly sure to prove payable if the present sandstone country continues downwards. Tw« men are engaged driving at No. 3 level; but there is nothing fresh to report. —G. S. Ciabk. ORIENTAL (OTUNUI). The manager reports that the reef is three feet wide, and gold is seen every breaking down. GOLD RETURNS. Moanataibi. —Trebilcock and party's crushing produced 7ozs 7dwts gold.