CINNABAR FIND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 86, 13 April 1899, Page 7

CINNABAR FIND.

A number of samples of cinnabar ere taken from a 4-t'oot lode on the Hauraki Cinabar Mineral Lease at the Thames were shown during the month. This is really ' the discovery made some months ago bj those well known prospoctcrs, Messrs Lowrie Brothers. The ground consists of 34 acres, situated about two miles from Short-land as the crow flies. Enough work has now been done to show that a lode from 3 to 4 feet in thickness exists on the property; in fact, those are the dimensions reported by the Government Geologist, ■Mr McKay. Some of the samples are very rich, but assay tests hare ranged from 0.3 to 27.5 per cent, of mercury, although some of the samples on view would certainly yield from 50 to ■60 per cent. . At present in Auckland mercury is worth a little over 2/(> per It) wholesale, and it is known that J per cent, in the ore will pay, so that this should prove a payable property. Unlike the deposit at Ohaewai, this place has been cool for ages. Some of the stone contains dark cinnabar, which, is considered an evidence of a permanent deposit. MAY QUEEX. A crushing of 66 tons of quartz, won by tributers from the May Queen mine, yielded gold worth £200 13s Sd. MONOWAI. Crushing operations are now In progress at the Monowai Company's battery, and the refractory pyritic ore is showing satisfactory results under the cyanide treatment, '"'he average value of the ore treated shapes for £3 15/ per ton.