THE GOLDFIELDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1913, Page 2

THE GOLDFIELDS.

SOUTHERN , MINING RETURNS. CONSOLIDATED GOIDFTELDS OF NEW ZEALAND, LTD. , CBy Tete3rapli.—Press r Association.) REEFTON, this day. The following are crushing returns for July for the above company's properties:— Progrp*.-.—The mill ran sixteen days. crushed 3,250 tons, yielding 6S2oz 1 l-dwts of bullion, valued at £2,741 5/11: cyanided 2,320 tons, yielding ]H2oz 14 dwts bullion, valued at £002 13/4; estimated vajiie of sulphureU prodixttd (4S tons), £527; cost per ton. mining 12/0. iniUing. excluding retreatment old tailings and disposal of concentrates 2/9. general expenses and bullion charges 1/8. Wealth of Nations.—Mill ran 24 days, crushed J .950 tons, yielding 5310z G dwts of bullion, valued at £2,190 10/; cyanided 1.323 toas. yielding 2520z 3dwts of bnllion. -valued at £858 7/2; estimated VaJne 'of sulphnreta produced (12 tons), |£64; cost per ton, mining 11/5, milling 4/2.- general expenses and bullion charges 2/5. The small tonnage is due to the coDap3e of two mortar Expect 3ow tonnage for August. Black-water.—Mill ran 23 day«. crushed 3,704 tons, yielding 1.4490z lOdwts buJ3ion. valued at £5.846 0/2; cyanided 3,946 tons, yielding lOSoz Bdwt3 "bullion. nraJued at £383 0/2; estimated value sulphxtrets produced (38 tons), £470; cost •per ton, mining 14/, milling 3/5. general •expenses and bullion charges 3/11. ><ew Big River CM. Company, Ltd.— ißattery 5710z lOdwts of melted gold tfrom 500 ton.s of stone crushed; cyanided IKJoz 4dwts from GOO tons of sands treated, estimated value £2_>45. TTAinr GRANT) HTNCTION. / The following cablegram was sent to the bead office, London, this day:—"We are orushins :;nn tons per twenty-fonrs, the extraction is 33/. No. 1 shaft is now down 113»t- At the bottom of the shaft there is a Vitt reef formation. Low Rrade. Umpire main lode. No. c level east: 744 ft. width of reef Sft, footwall exposed, value 6/. Koyal lode No. ti, level east: 5-Uft. Country broken." The report of work done during period ending 14th June, l(n:i:—No. 1 main shaft is now down lllSlft. Work has heen temporarily suspended to allow of substitution of electric suid cornish. pinups. At No. r» level, the Itoyat Jode, No. 1 winze, is down 73ft. This work produced 30 tons of ore, from a width of 51i inches, worth 15/ per ton; neither wall being exposed. No. S -winze is down C7Jft. The reef fa exposed .Tfiin wide, assaying £2 1/7. No. C level, Empire west: No. 3 rise wan put up 36ft, at which point It holed into No. 0 winze. 73 tona -oame from' here, from a width of 52 inches, worth £?, \/2 per ton. Pootwall only exposed. Empire footwall Jofldf*r ~. Tlio soutli bra.rH*ii bns bpen broken ont Oft wide for a length of 66ft west ot the Junction. The lode has no distinct walls, and <-onsists of white "quartz an/I country rock. Another branch lode has been exposed at l"6iift west, s-trlkinp north-east, and situated between Kmpire main and footwall leader. This has been followed 32Tt with Tery 111----tiefinpd walls; producing 90 tons of ore for a width of jOin. -worth £13 11/8 per ton. As ■this vein is close to the Kuipire main lode it will be broken out and worked with It as one stoping , block. Th<> Empire lode east drive Li along SSlft. and" prodnced 190 tons of ore from an averajre width of 54in, worth ■CI 18/ C. Kootwnll only exposed. No. 6 <Tossrut was projected at r>6f»ft east, and exposes both walls, the full width being ]r>o inrhes. worth 11/6. No. 13 rise is up r»Oft. at which point it holed into No. 13 winze from -the No. 5 level. This work produced 54 tons p.f ore, from a width of Si inches, worth 10/ L The ore band in narrow, <ief»r£c lode, west drive, prwlaced 170 tons of ore for a width of 42 inches, worth £1 2/2. No. 1 rise "holed to ttte winze from No. 5 level. prodn<-inc; ISO tons ore. from a width of fil inches, worth £2 !>/10; hanging wall exposed. The Koyal lode, east drive, is atonp 310 ft The drive continued through soft disturbed Country to KOOft, where a reef formation was cut. The lnrte was broken and disturbed, and the strike north, assays of <jaartz averaged 7/10.