MINING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 13 November 1925, Page 11

MINING NEWS.

MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS. Zeehan Consolidated.—The mine manager, reporting for the week ending November 7, states that the contractors have advanced the north face 4 feet 6 inches The reef Iβ wider than the drive, showing & heavily mineralised band in the centre. The wages men employed building a firewood etied and. also delivering and sawing firewood. Everything Iβ now in readiness to push, on the driving of the north face with two shifts. Rising Sun, —The mine manager reports that in No. 1, S. block. No. 3 reef the reef is very erratic in width, and there Iβ no great length of uniform size. It ranges from a few inches in places' to 241n. The average width of the reef worked tluring the perioa was 181n, worth £5 12/ per ton. In Xo. 2, S. block, Xo. 3 reef the lode Is looking very well, giving an average width of 24in. worth £4 17/ ton. In No.. 1, 8. block. Xo. 1 reef, ail efforts are now concentrated on this block to get ailing and timbering completed as quickly as possible, to enable a rise to be started. This work should be far enough advanced daring the coming week to enable them to start breaking ore again. Battery: For the week, October 29 to November 4, 10 stamps ran 31 hours, crashing approximately 81 tone of ore, worth £6 0/9 per ton. Recovered from plates and berdan H7oxs amalgam, making a total of 2200t5; this has been retorted and smelted to approximately 73 oss of bullion. The cyanide "clean up" has bees completed.for a yield of approximately 128028 bullion.

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