HAURAKI NORTH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 213, 9 September 1896, Page 2

HAURAKI NORTH.

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Coromandel, this day.

The shafb hut now attained n depth of 50 feet below No. 1 level, or 150 teeb in all from the surface. The chamber for No, 2 level is now being token in, and the necessary excavations made preparatory to putting in the timbers, which should all be in position, and everything made secure, Borne time nexb week. A well hole $ feeb in depth will ba sunk to hold the. mine water, and a stark made to immediately commence the driving: of tbe low level crosscut to intersect the t»ajn Hauraki North reef, so well known now «■ ft goldproducer, and which should be at hand in 23 feeb of driving, aa carefully calculated. Tbis work should be accomplished, all gojne well, inside of » month ; as good progress will be possible from the fact that a cage and trucks-will bo substituted for tbe cumbersome bucket now employed in windingNo better eiaea. of country could bo wished for than thftb now obtaining ab the bottom qf the shaft, containing as ib doea all the necessary mineral and other indications associated with,the roaming- of gold. Tbe drive on the main reel going weab at No, 1 leval to along 70f.b from the point of intersection. The reef continues to average IBm in thieknew of splendid quality sbone, which appears bp be making more solid and compact, nnd losing some of the oxidised appearance wbiob ib formerly bore. Duriog the lasb few d*y» some of the stones shewed nice daba And blotchea of gold, and baking everything into consideration, ib seems thab the root is improving even w driven upon in tibia direction, Stoping above No. I hae* been discontinued for the present, pending the completion of works in the ejiftft, and also partly on aceoub of the inconvenience caused by the inflowing of surface water, which interfered somewhat wtth Operations, Ib-can safely be said that if the gold carries down to bba No. 2 level, as there jeems every indication of ib doing, the, reef will be found better defined and richer in quality, from which ib may bo inferred bbab tbe Hauraki North will take i^ place a.sione of the principal mines on the field, if ib does not already occupy that position. The erection of a battery will be the nexb consideration bo be entertained by the directors, and it is to be hoped they will not lose eight of its importance, and Consequently make arrangements co soon us fully satisfied with the prospects of their mjfse for its speedy srection.