THE GOLDFIELDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 135, 9 June 1910, Page 6

THE GOLDFIELDS.

CROWN- MINES. CRUSHIKG RESUMED. THE EffiST EJETtERKL 1 £4075 FROM 1555 TONS. It will be welcome news to shareholders • in. the New Zealand Grown. MinesCompany to learn thak-after a. 'long wait crushing operations have been resumed, and the first, jreturn is a.satisfactory one. Tihe general manager reports that since the company commenced development work in No. 4 and below No. 5 levels 1555 tons of ore have been crushed and treated for a return of bullion valued at £4075. The average gross value of the ore treated was £2 16/11 per ton, and average net value £2 12/6 per ton. This is the first return since November, 1908. The total amount won from-the jnine to date is-now £747,297. TALJECVnAN> CONSOHHATED. .The mine superintendent forwarded the following, information, to the London office:—"No 13 level, north drive, progress 30ft., width of reef 42in., values low; No. 15 rise, advanced 51ft., width of reef Sliiu, value £3 4/-; No. 6 winze, progress 6ft., width of reef 48in., value £.13 7/6; No. 12 winze, progress 17ft., reef wider than workings, value £8 13/-; No- 13 winze, progress 9ft., width of reef 24Ln., value 32/-." WEST COAS* RETURNS. (By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) GEETMOCTH, Monday. The following returns are reported from the Beeftor «oines:— Progress.—Crushed 4255 tons, yielding bullion to the value of £5746; cyanided 2805 tons, valne £1085; sulphnrets produced an estimated value of £752. Wealth of Nations.—Crushed 1780 tons, yielding bullion to the value of £2488; cyanided 1650 tons, value £652. Blackwater.—Crushed 3400 tons, yielding bullion of the value of £8572; cyanided ,2035 tons, valne £565. CROMWELL G-iL COMPANY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVKRCARGILI*, Tnesday. A cable was received to-day by Mr. J. C. Wihiteman, who was a passenger by the TJlinxaroa, that the Cromwell Gold Mining Company, with, a capital of £20,000, was underwritten in Melbourne last Wednesday, and the shares were over-subscribed on Friday. The company will develop the Bendlgo Ore mine, one of the earliest worked imd richest in Otago. MAOBUjANB. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) W-AIHI, this day. The cross reef Intersected in the crosscut from the low level In the Maoriland mine has been passed through, and the manager expects to get the main reef in a few days. He reports that the country is of a firmer and better class in the present face. The bullion from an interim clean up has been banked, and the quartz going through the mill shows good average value.