OUR GOLDFIELDS.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Thames, this clay.
The Big Pump is still shut down. Up to the present, however, operations are proceeding in the mines as usual.
Coromandkl, this day
Tokatea. — Since my last report, McHalpiu and party, on No. 7 tribute, are getting some really good general quartz, but no picked stone, except about lib of small chips of stone found in tho dish when prospecting ; but those small stones are remarkably rich in gold, and give good hopes that the general stuff will turn out well when crushed. They have on hand over two and a-half tons of good average stuff andaboub 121bs of specimen stone. Steele and Dyer, from No 8, have obtained 101 bs of fairly good picked stone. This was found in sinking, the winze mentioned in my last report, which is sunk to a depth of 12 feet. The leader is in a splendid class of country and looking well, it being four inches thick, giving good dish prospects at the bottom of the winze for three feet in length, lain expecting every day to have a good find of gold to report from here. Roberts and party have a reef 18 inches thick ; with golden stone every other shift.—Jno. Bk.vney, mine manager. Royal Oak.-For the past week there has been nothing to report from the mine of any importance. No. 3 cross lode should be met with in a few feet of driving ahead. The tributers have nob broken any reef down in No. 2 level since tho crushing ; from what is stripped, the reef dues not seem quite up to the last. In No 2 reef, near the surface, they arc getting some crushing stuff'carrying loose gold.— Pktek Rkid, mine manager.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1888, Page 5
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