THE GOLDFIELDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 95, 21 April 1906, Page 6

THE GOLDFIELDS.

: WATHT EXTEXDEI). The iHanager of the. Waihi Extended Gpldminiiig. Co. has received, the f oUowing; report from the assayer:—The reef in the Waihi ; "Extended was sampled, on _Tnesdky evening'last at a point, 490 ft in from the shaft with the following result: Width -of the reef sampled 6ft; assay value,.gold sdVrt 6grs per "ton, silver -loz*Bdwt per ton, a value of £ 1 5/6 per ton. The reef is composed of hard quartß-.for-the full; width.- .sampled, of sulphides, galena/ and zinc blend ■'being -distributed through it. I Neither wall was showing. TKe following is a report on' assaj-s from the , lode .. in the mine: — Xo. 1: On hanging wall side, 3ft 2in wide; gold 16gr., silver-adwt 6gr,, value 3/5-per..ton- ".No. 2: Next seam, lft 6in: wide; gold'ldwt,.silver Cdwt;l4gr., value 5/ per ton. N0..3: On footyraU. side, lft 10in wide; gold 4dwt 7gr., silver 17dwt lOgr., value £1-0/2 a ton.. Exposed width, - 6ft 6in, average value 8/6 a ton, neither wall exposed. The looks encouraging, and the hangingwall seam appears■ to be striking off in about the same direction as the course;-of the reef before it turned at 467 ft. This; hangingwall seam is composed of soft, friable quartz. A picked sample from No. 3,seam assayed £2 2/ per ton. GOLD MINING EXPEDITION. ; NEW BATTERIES, STARTED. JBy.; Telegrapn.— Own- Beporter.) • . " TAIKUA, this day. The steamer Ajipouri, vrith Mr Adams and his guests, visited the Great Barrier, where Mrs Adams started the Sunbeam battery. After th> party had indulged in finsh'ing forhapuka the steamer went to ■ Whangamata, arriving there on Thursday morning. Horses and a brake conveyed the visitors to the Auckland mine. Friday was spent in fishing off Tairua, and waiting for the horses to go round. On Saturday morning the party were conveyed in an oil latinch up the Tairua River to the landing. TheJ then rode on to the Broken HiUs and Golden Belt mines, where the-20-head of stampers at the latter company's battery were started. The. Aupouri Tβturns to the Great Barrier on Saturday night, and "will reach Auckland on Monday. -• THE WAIOTAHI MIKE. Beparts Jrrun the Waiotahl mine state that Tat the No. 6 level the drive- on the footwall branch, eastward is being continned. This branch has now made into a t>ody of quartz fully three feet in thictness/witn a defined wall, and running east and west _ and more Sn the ■ proper course ot the main reef. It ie probable that this will turn ont'to bo the true mala' reef; while the hanging wall branch, may-be the Cambria reef, as it Is heading In the direction in; which that reef is: now being worked, in the: Kuranui-CaledpnSan, mine. In'Xo.'S level work i 3 .being continued in the. eastern face of the drive .on the. main reef, and thoijgtt the : right" -hand , wall -is still-100111164 to :.tnm redncing the size of;tlie reef t'6 about 27ft, it Js still producing, a large amount of- fair grade ore. The No. 1 "stope above this level has : been temporarily discontinued ; until the ;driv« Is further advanced, and a rise has been commenced from the back of the stope, to . cetnnect witli. the eastward winre being stmk.flpSir.Xo. 4 7 level. J No. 2 stope has been- iir>-progress eastward, and is now the-centie of the ran of gold.„ and is pro-dncJtngi-'-WKy.rich''dirt. Nine cwt of. pickCβ stone Bas been seenred from the hanging '-w-all-iitvttietwo weeks the stope has been in progress. At No. 4, level there is etill "a nice compact, reef in the face, containing good mineral indications, j The second and third stopes are being carried along, snd are producing., good crashing dirt. MIKE MANAGERS , ' KEPORTS. Miaerals, Limited, — Ths manager wires from Blue Spnr. Hokitika:—"frospecte pevable .-west; struck. sold 'east driveSocd prospects." '