OUR GOLDFIELDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 10 May 1895, Page 4

OUR GOLDFIELDS.

THE WAIHI MINE!

ANOTHER EXCELLENT- RETURN,

Another excellen 6 return was obtained this month from the Waihi mine. The result of the crushing was sent last night. For the 28 days ending-May 4, 2,190 tons' :of ore were crushed and treated, yielding £7,540 worth of bullion, an average ot over £3 8s lOd per ton. This is an improvement upon'the return for the previous month. The output from* this mine; to date, now , totals the respectable earn of £269,644. I- SCHOOL OF MINES. H Owing to the increase of students ab th° I'Thaines School of Mines, it was resolved a£ the meeting of the Committee held las *ni_hfc to ask the Government to gran another £100 for the purpose of building another class-room.. TBE CYANIDE PATENT. Mr R. W. Pennefather, the Commissioned appointed to inquire into the question o* the validity or otherwise of the McArthur Forrest patant for the process of savin_ gold by the cyanide process, sab yesterday at the Star 'Hotel .to' take evidence. The witnesses examined were Messrs Geo; T. Lawlor, Geo. Denby (chemist), W. H. Martin, G.B. Hilton, H. M. Shepherd and T. F. Chees6man. The ex_ininafcion of witnesses was confined to those able to give evidence to show whether. or not cyanide had been used for the extraction ;cf gold from the matrix prior to the issue of the patents to McArthur Forrest on the 28th of November, 1888. Mr Henry Walter Courtney Simpson, of. the; firm of Ellison and' ['Simpson, Melbourne, solicitors for the plaintiff (Mr Hay), conducted the examination of the witnesses. '*• The1 Commissioner did not eit this morning, but .resumed at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. QUARTZ IN THE UREWERA : ;l . COUMTRiV The following telegram has been received from a resident ab Galatea :—Whakarewa- ; rewa,; Thursday. —A. H. Waddle, lato diamond drill expert at the Grand Junction mine, Waihi, has discovered a well-defined reef in the Urewora country, beween Ruatoki and Galatea, in good sandstone country. Specimens have been ;eenb to the Government for assay. Waihi South. —A meeting of persons interested in the Birthday, Christmas Box,' New Year, and Mackay No.-1 Licensed Holdings, at Waihi South, has been convened for next Monday, the objectbeing to settle a course of action for the future. MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS. Woodstock. —The manager reports that the extension of the No. 3 level southwards has been confined tD stripping the No. 2 lode, which will be broken down about next Saturday. There is no material alteration in the; character or quality of the No. 2 lode, where the six stopes are now in progress, and the average • assay value of the ore coming to hand from end to end of the block—4oo feet ,in length—is £5 9s, per ton.: Ab the No. 3 level the rich ore shoot has nob yet been reached. The lode averages 4fb in width1 and carries! more or leas gold and silver thtoughout. In order to got under the Scotb shoot ofrich ore 120 ft will require yet to be driven. The manager also forwarded a list of assays and pointed out tha6 they showed the percentage of bullion recovered by thecyanide' process is still very low on the average.. He advised the duplication,of the amalga- = mating tables, as from those-already in u«e< £69 worth of bullion wasobtained during;; I the last four weeks' run. ■: .'■■'• : ,

WAmr ■ Si-Vjjrton Extended. — Themanager reports- thab all works- are pro- ■ greßsing favourably. • ' Wav_b__y.—The manager.-reports that the drive is in 230 feet through firstcla9,s : -isistnTistptae.. :The reef js still- carryjnig "ai litubla 1 gold, and frbin pre*enb indications a payable run of ore might be met with when le_sb expected. Welcome Find (Coromandel).,—A now lode was opened out yesterday, which gave out a stream of water. Ib is a very likely leader for gold. The first ecow load of machinery was landed ab the site yesfcer- ■ day. ' ■'"' ■' ■ ; '" '' .''.''" ■■-■'■'

Ivanuoe.—No. 1 reef has been broken down without showing much improvement in the prospects. Aboub 15 feet of this reef have also Been broken on the side of the spur. It is full of minerals, bub so far prospects of gold have nob been seen. Men are now engaged stripping the" reef near the river.

Marmios.— The manager reports :— " Stack pole's reef is sbill increasing in size, and eight feet of quartz is showing in the faceab presenb* and no sign,of the foobwall. Small prospectsjpf gold are obbainable from any portion of the reef in the face, but ib is nob good enough to save for treatment." ;