MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 256, 4 November 1897, Page 5

MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS.

Sl?aa Extended.—Low level tunnel : 'eahve feet since last report. Work '^has been stopped. A start made to ?»a air-Wast. j7, Queen Extended.—Good progress Struck body of I m JJ^good minerals showing through •wniiß: course now sboM'ing it cannot ij.^"Smith's reef, but wiy junction sria:-Winze below No. 3|evel has '«c for greater part of week. Sinkand present prospects at this «ar 6 certainly such as to warrant a jj&nce of -work. Quartz coming to te; 1 stoPes above this level shows ,| ; little more gold seen %\* 1 same ree^ in d"ye at inter(gjevel shown little gold at each &sjCaown; both quartz and country Dm J Wav indicate that greatly imof ore sh.mld met wifch a3 yj,.).^68- Driving is proceeding in Hi f Sm^ 11 leader in footwall of • S WOU^ average from Wnf-v nclies in thickness, composed i^'siuca. Gold seen very freely in lefsI efsT A starfc lia-s been made with \\jS "je Southern continuation of **taLv, a di! ?tance of 12 feet has P• ed A good class of sanclCgngmtheface. *'W W t c °ntractors have completed N z»A i driving in the Waterfall %Cv aye Parted another 50 feet iut^ Ufc the Mammoth lode. The %i t faF e continues of a white Squan ation of excellent goldK»atA y' Judging from the quan'Vld! Colning from the face the S vf, on>e to hand. Havl i a of Hauraki (Cabbage %11 'trenching moat of the S Htar have cut nothing of imn;oaVe started to trench where '""vas, as there is a large body

of stone, and from some of it I can obtain colours of gold. I believe it to be part of the reef which slipped away, and will follow it as long as I can obtain colours ; it has evidently come from a reef not far distant.