MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 225, 28 September 1897, Page 8

MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS.

Hauraki Main Lodes (Limited).— No 1 crosscut has passed through the belt of 'hard rock, and is in good looking country. Stringers of quartz and calcite are met Avith. No. 2 crosscut, N.W., is still in hard rock. Expect to cut through this at any time. The machinery is working well. Cage guides have been placed in position, and the water remains about the same. Scotia.—A tunnel is being put mto cut new reef at a depth of about 30 feet. Have driven 25 feet and expect to cut her in another 12 feet. The creek runs out at •this point, so that if the reef lives down it 5s most probable that its accounts for the loose gold found in the creek from this point downwards. . • ~ New Oor/nKN Point (Tapn).—Sinking In the n«v.v v.iuzc on the Golden Point reef belov t- :tew low level is proceeding salistoctoriiy. The reef measures over

three feet in thickness and is composed chiefly, of: stringy quartz whicli continues to look very promising, gold being freely seen at each breaking down. The country strata in thefootAvall of the reef is of a firm description, and several quartz veins have been passed through in sinking; colours of gold were seen in each. Fl£mington (Whangamata).—The new or No. 3 drive is now in a distance of 26 feet. Another 26 feet would intercept the reef at 1(30 feet further north from the face of the crosscut north in the No. 1 level. We have been going through a brown sandstone country.

Waihi Extended.—The drive has been extended 42ft for the fortnight, and during the past week several pieces of loose brown quartz, oxide of iron, and iron pyrites were frequently seen in the sandstone, which goes to show that a quartz lode travrses this portion of the ground. Four-in-Hand. —The drive along the main reef is still proceeding, but no change of importance has been noticed. Other men are employed prospecting a new reef that has been discovered.

Bay View. —The drive is in a better class of country, which is more solid and carrying small mineral, seams through it. The deeper down the country seems to improve. The lode averages from two to six inches in width and lias, a much better appearance than it had in the level above. The manager expects to drive 70 feet more before getting under where the first specimens were got.