Karangahake

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2214, 16 September 1886, Page 2

Karangahake-

Woodstock. — Pending further arrangements, the majority of the hands were discharged on Saturday last. Very fair stone is to hand from the stopes above the lower and intermediate levels. The better quality is being paddocked for smelting, and the low grade stufF sent to the Ivanhoe battery where 8 head of stampers are working 3 shifts. Return will be probably be about 15dwts. to the ton. There is no reliable information as to the re-starting of the furnace. Crown. —Very little work is being done in this mine, only two hands at present being kept on. The directors are working as economically as possible until the New Quartz Reduction Works start. when they hope to employ a number of hands. Some fair stone is being grassed from the stops. Adelaide. — A winze is now being sunk from the present level to connect with a drive which is shortly to be put in from the Rose Company ground. This will mean a large opening up of tins mine, which is undoubtedly one of the best minaged on the field. A contiact was to have been let to-diy (Monday) at noon, but I have not yet heard the. successful tenderer's name, for the driving of 200 feet, in this proposed tunnel. About 20 tons of No. I quartz (valued at £90 or £100 per ton) is to hand, and some 40 tons of second-class stuff of the latter which is to be sent to the battery as soon as Messrs Sol and Boreas, the eminent road contractors, start repairing the county track. Diamond. — The recent return at the rate of over five ounces to the ton has created much jubilation among those interested in this and adjacent mines. There is no doubt that when the quartz reduction works are fairly under weigh that nearly all the mines on this, the eastern side of Karangahake, will be dividend payeis. Amonir these mines are the Rose. Adtline, Dubbo, Sutro, and Crown. The New Quartz Reduction Works are now the cynosure of all eyes. This is the denver rvssort of Karangahake, and nhould it fail in solving the question of the payable reduction of low grade ore, then wi 1 Karnngahake be anathema. Not that theie ih much tear of its failure, for every one on the field who has any notion at all of the question is extremely hopeful of its success. It is without any doubt a twenty prr cent, improvement on the old battery process, and although theoretically it is not popularly supposed to be within cooey of the smelting process, yet I make no doubt that practically and by nett results it will prove far better.