The Mines.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1545, 30 May 1882, Page 2

The Mines.

Coquette.— lmmediately after the opening of the Held, this claim was secured in the usual manner, and shortly aftorwaids a large icef was discovered outcropping to a considerable height above the surface, and although no gold was visible to the naked eye, nevertheless fora distance of over 100 feet on the line of reef small prospects of exceedingly fine gold can be obtamed by crushing the quartz. The lode is from 2to Bft. Ide, and its course, like the Premier and Queen, of Beauty, is NE. and S.W. The outcrop of the same reel is prominently coiibpicious through a poition of the Little and Uood and Eureka claims, where in the latter mine the receub trial test was taken from the reef in question. A crosscut is now being extended to cut the reef and in good working country &o far, 40 feet already having been driven, and a further distance of 25ft, it is computed, will iutorscct the lode, and give 50 feet of backs. Youxu Oolomaj,. — Billing the past week very little woik has been done upon the new discovery, it now being deemed advisable at a future time to extend the present crosscut level in oiderto intersect that reef. Present operations are confined to driving on the main line of reef from the crosscut tunnel in a southerly course.