MINING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 5 August 1925, Page 12

MINING NEWS.

MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS. Rising- Sun.—The manager reports:— No. 1 South Block, No. 1 reef: Sloping has j been carried on in this block, breaking , the lode over an average width of 2 4in, worth £7 per ton. No. 1 South Block, No. 3 Reef: Stoping has been carried on in this block, breaking the lode over an average width lor IBm, two - men breaking and two men I lining. As we have now got to a height lin the block where ventilation is only obtained by artificial means, I have round it necessary to reduce the number or men until such time as money is available Tor opening tip this part or the mine by rising and driving. No. 3 Level South, No. 3 Reef: The contractors have made an extension of isrt stnce starting, making a total length or IO4Tt driven on stone on this reer. The reer in the race or the driveshows loin, worth £7 16/8, per ton. Battery: For week rrom.23rd to 29th ult., ten: stamps ran 23.62 hours, crushing approximately 24 tons, worth £6 12/8 per ton. Amalgam for the week, 2140z, making- a total on hand of 4 88oz. . This has been retorted and smelted to approximately 120oz. Kurunui.—A few pounds of stone from the reof in the Kurunui Mine, Thames, are on view at the office of the secretary, Mr. \Y. Niccol, Victoria Arcade. The samples are really good ones, showing coarse gold freely. The reef from which this stone was taken varies from one to three feet in thickness. It has been cut about. 200 feet above the beach road level, and there are at least 150 feet of backs overhead. In his report the manager -writes that the reef has grpatly improved. All the quartz is being saved as the manager considers it is good crushing dirt, as satisfactory prospec-ts can be got from every part of the face. The manager adds: "Thei'e is every .prospect of some specimens being got in the near future. In the southwest drive also the quartz gives good proipects in the dish.