MINING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 118, 27 May 1885, Page 2

MINING NEWS.

(BY TELEURAI-H.-OWN COBRHPONBMjV

Thames, this day Ti'amks Golden Crown. — About lfflr picked stone were secured yesterday *(£' breaking down the Cambria reef mm chamber of No. 2 level. Tins Kkw Gold saving PeocwkS X, LaMonte, who holds the secret oHk new smelting processes, which aw '*? ■ dently destined to revolutionise' tL systems for the treatment of metallifeirai ores, has finished his tour of tktf-lfc Aroha, Ohinemuri, and Thames; joU fields, and returned to Auckland Isit evening, laden with samples collected £ route. When at Karangahake, lie 'msmiffl the argentiferous lodes opened in the Vfaj. (stock and Golden Crown mines, aid W expresses the conviction that greater til™ in silver has been lost on thatgold6eldtt«iithe worth of the gold saved. YeatordM Mr LaMonte visited the most, imponfitl mines of the Thames district, ao'dcbtjipeds: quart/, specimens from each, which^(Sjtidifferent parcels of tailings, he pa'rpoeß testing. After examination of tte'pyiffigcarried through the tail racee of tie:M£tories, he pronounces the mineral t»!he" much richer than he anticipated,' HeW iinforms me that if his teats on a small ?cA jesult satisfactorily, he has no doabt thst a Bmelting furnace will be erected at tie Thames, by himself or those with whom li' is associated. • ■ - . tl ;j,/, ; Caleconian.—The boiler of winding a- . trine requires extensive repairp,andtlienuj».'. j gerdoes not expect to be iWeto Mm ( hoisting operations for tfatj neit three weeks, Ivanhoe (Karangahake)—A crashing of 99 tons quartz has given the excellent return of lS4^oz gold. ' ; j Rocky Point.—The manager has embed.:.', 3'l loads for a payable return of 370z. '.' The banks have restored the prieesTw gold to the rates which obtained previous t the «ar scare. "..., >*;,;'