Grace Darling Crushing.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 274, 25 November 1897, Page 5

Grace Darling Crushing.

AVERAGE VALUE £3 4s PER TON. The manager has reported that No. 1

rise is up 40 feet and will now form a travelling pass and open up a block of ground. Good gold has been carried up the Avhole of the distance and the ore in the top is of first rate quality showing gold freely in the stone. The lode has maintained an average size of six feet. Forty feet north of this, another rise has been put up 20 feet and is producing ore of a highly payable character. The lode at present is 4 feet 6 inches in width and is opening out rapidly to the usual proportions. This rise is to be earned to the surface. The mine is opening up splendidly and showing a large body of payable ore. The final cleaning up of the crushing of 50 tons of ore has been completed and the result is a return at the rate of £3 4s per ton. This does not include the silver. About 20 tons of tailings and slimes remain to be treated. It must be remembered also that this return does not represent the actual value of the ore crushed, as a good allowance must be made for losses incidental and inseparable from a first crushing at any mill. The crushing proves that the gold exists in the ore in quantities payable as amendable to the cyanide treatment.