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Macetown District. The Glenrock Consolidated Mine (area, 53 acres) comprises the Premier section, which is worked from an incline-adit 2,000 ft. in length with a grade of 1 in 4, from an intermediate level 180 ft. above, and also from another level below the adit. The lode is in mica-schist rock. The gold occurs in shoots of quartz, the rest of the lode fissure being filled with decomposed slate. Mr. Stanford, the general manager, gives the following account of the workings in the mine, the plant, and yield'of gold, &c.: — Only one shoot has been discovered in this mine of any permanence. This underlies with the reef, and has a pitch westwards on the strike of the reef of lin 4. It was traced from the outcrop to a depth of about 30ft. below low-level adit, where it faulted. The year's work up to November, 1896, was devoted to prospecting, and gold was again struck, but it is doubtful if it is the same shoot or a new make. The lode has an underlie of 62J degrees south-west, and strikes 26 degrees north of west and south of east. The hauling is done by electricity. Power is obtained off the mill shaft and transmitted 830 yards to a motor, which is 530 yards from the mouth of the tunnel; 20-horse power is available, but only 6 to 8 used, hauling 2 ton up lin 4 at 90 ft. per minute. Thirty stamps, in two separate mills of twenty and ten, are available. The twenty-stamp mill has 600 lb. stamps, the ten-stamp mill 800 lb. There are also two berdans and one Blake Marsden stone-crusher. Power is obtained from a 6ft. Pelton, working under 560 ft. pressure. The cyanide plant of four vats is capable of treating 5 tons concentrates per day. Twenty stamps worked 3 days 1 hour; fifteen stamps, 48 days 14 hours; ten stamps, 12 days 19 hours. About 1,038 tons was crushed, yielding 398 oz. 2 dwt. lgr. gold, value £1,596 17s. 6d.; and 19 tons concentrates treated by cyanide process yielded £69 14s. The cost of mining the quartz is only 17s. 5d., and of milling 4s. 4d. per ton. On the average sixteen men were employed. We

Date of License. Area. Section. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. Dunedi: n —continued. 8/1/97 8/1/97 7/8/96 4/10/95 2/10/96 2/10/96 2/10/96 6/3/96 7/2/96 10/1/96 10/1/96 10/1/96 0/3/96 6/3/96 7/8/96 3/7/96 3/7/96 2/10/96 6/11/96 8/1/97 8/1/97 8/1/97 A. E. P. 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 6 7 8 I 2 I 9 5 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 4 44 2 46 Pt. 4 47 6 XI. Nenthorn .. David C. Simpson. D. Reid, jun. Barewood Quartz-mining Co. (Ltd.). 20 0 14 VII. ) XI. j XI. 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 16 2 0 16 2 0 12 3 4 9 2 39 26 0 0 13 2 12 20 0 0 16 2 0 XII. V. Mount Hyde John Lawson. J. A. Chapman. Peter Andrew Lyders. Frederick Evans. P. A. Lyders and two others. Ernest Turner. E. R. Smith. Lyders and Harrison. IV. VI. IV." X.' IV. V. Sutton Mount Hyde Richard Sheppard. John Macdonald. James Macpherson. William M. Adam. James Garrett. George Smith. 18/9/96 53 3 10 9, 11 V. Na ,seby. Budle Blue Slate Junction James A. Sligo. 1/10/96 60 0 0 I 10 1 6, 7 280 III. I. Hummock } Blackstone Nenthorn .. Budle ) Hummock } Budle | Hummock } Hummock ) Budle J" Highlay Fowler's Henry Fowler and Brothers. 25/2/96 1/1/88 99 0 0 20 0 0 Rough Ridge Syme's J. B. Neale. John Symes and others. 1/10/96 60 0 0 ( 5, 9 I I f 1 1 2 12 13 10 4, 5 3 4 13 41 15 ( 5 ( 5 8 V. III. V. III. Smaill's Alexander Smaill. 23/7/96 30 0 0 Croesus H. A. Wicks. 22/10/96 30 0 0 V. Egger's Joshua H. Eggers and another. 27/10/96 27/10/96 27/10/96 12/3/95 21/8/95 23/7/96 23/7/96 19/11/91 1/9/95 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 27 3 28 30 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 v'ii. VIII. Dunback .. El Dorado Golden Bar Gray's Extended Golden Point John Kinney. M. Prendergast. W. Guffie. W. H. Feahey. J. S. Gray. W. and G. Donaldson. IX. VII. V. Highlay .. Mills's Mount Highlay .. Tipperary Quartzmine Tipperary Ext. .. IV. ! IX. Bud'le Highlay Budle ) Dunback } H. N. Mill's and others. A. Bartleman and another. James Phelan and another. 29/10/89 30 0 0 8/5/90 30 0 0