MARIPOSA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 158, 6 July 1899, Page 9

MARIPOSA.

Burin? the past month -flip Mari-po-n Cold Jlininp Company, Kuaotunu, crushed 103 ions of ore for a return of bullion valued sit €191 1/3. NAPIER EXTENDED. Messrs Heekmau and Martin, tribtitcrs in this minil, have h:nl a small parcel of- picked stone treated ai tJie rfi'iiivaki Associated battery For n return of Vaya lSdwts of retorted gold, value CS ">,"•'<• lI.AURAKI ASSOCIATE!). The drive on the footwnll lend .Jit \'o. :; level is now 2S I'eet beyond tlif1 break, the country has Iven very hart! and the trader therefore pinched and split, lint a better class of country is now- showing in the face, and the leader is becoming1 more compact. Gold has been seen every breaking down. and there is now every prospect of the ore improvingl. The course of the break is being;.further followed in order to determine the existence or otherwise, of another lender, or that portion left in the bottom of the winze. The country is favourable both for tnjld and speedy working; goo.'! headway is therefore being made, and another few days should prove this matter. An intermediate level, about ■10 feet up Hie rise, has been commenced, a distance of 120 feet has been driven, and from this about ;>ooz of gold have been obtained. The country at this point is pood working. Stoping above the Xo. 1 level is still being carried on, very fair crushing dirt being won. Three parties of tributers have been at work on the surface sections during the past few weeks. One party has just completed

a small crushing for 9ioz retorted gold, value about £25. The usual monthly crushing1 has been finished of 5 tons, for 40oz, valued at about £112. The smallness of the return is due to the fact that we are still doing openingl up work, but when stoping1 is commenced over Xo. 3 level much better results may be expected. WAI HI COMPANY. The manager's monthly report stales -that the .Martha lode at No. 4 level, oust of Xo. 2 .shaft, is 40 feet wide, and worth on an average of ten samples right across the face ten dwts Vjgrs oC gold to the tort. The south-eastern crosscut at Xo. -4 level is in 410 feet through biocky sandstone with open heads. The country is favourable for quart?;, and several small veins have been passed, one from six to eight inches thick, assaying- loz Idwt Cgrs of gold and Goz of silver per ton. The No. 4 level, No. 1 shaft, is in 73 feet. The Regina lode ;auie to hand at 50 feet, and proved to be an excellent body of ore 11 feet ■.vide, worth on an average loz Bciwts 3grs of gold and Soz 17dwts of silver o the ton. Another GO feet of driving should bring the hanging1 wall of the

Martha lode to hand. Driving will be j continued on the course of the Kegina lode at this level. At No. ;> level the Welcome lode is 9J feet wide. At 10 feet back from the • face a crosscut was run through from the bottom of Hales' Pass on the Victoria lode, a dishnnce of 44 feet. At 20 feet from the Welcome lode a four foof. lode was •lit which, assayed loz Odwts lOgrs if gold per ton. This is evidently the largest and richest portion of the Victoria lode at this level. The ■ranch driven on from Hales' Pass as from one to two feet in thickness. n the stopes over No. 3 level the iWleome lode is producing ore of iicdium value. In No. 1 stope the nle is 27 feet wide, being1 the junc'nn of the Welcome and .Victoria p?fs. In the second stope the lode ;15 feet wide, in the third 18 feet. . i.d in the eastern face of No. 31 A 'ass it is 25 feet wide. East of No. 2 haft, same level, the lode has been alien out to the full width, to admit f timbering' for 57 feet. The Magahie lode at Xo. 3 level lias produced ro of fair quality. The Martha lode v Zno. 3 level produced ore of more ineralised character, but of ordinary nality. In the stopes it varies from ■; to 32 feet in width. Over No. 2 •vA the stoping blocks on No. 1 nneh of the Victoria and Welcome odes are exhausted to the Victoria

! ;Junction. Beyond that point the Welcome lode is intact to the surface. Jn the NAY. crosscut at No. 2 level the Martha lode has widened out to six feet, but there is no improvement in the class of ore produced there. Jn the eastern end of No. 2 level the rise was extended up to where the lode gave out, i 5 feet, and good ore was found all the way. At the adit level the Victoria lode !:-; from six to eight feet wide in the scopes, .and the Welcome lode from six to 10 feet.