WAIHI MINE REPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 17

WAIHI MINE REPORT.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.

WAIHI, this day.

The following information has been cabled to London by the Waihi Gold Mining Company:— In No. 8 sub-level, at 71 feet below No. 8 level, the Regina lode has been crosscut in two places. The first crosscut shows the full width to be 24 feet, with an assay value of 27/ per ton, and in the second crosscut 18 feet in width, with an assay value of 27/ per ton. In rml- 9 * eve * °* ® e g* na l°de, in the White crosscut, a new drive has been commenced at 145 feet In. We have driven to the west 20 feet in ore, assaying 51/6 per ton, and to the east 10 feet in ore assaying 47/9 per ton. In the north section of the Empire lode, west of the Power crosscut, the 7 feet of driv ing assays 33/3 per ton.. The lode is about 5 feet in width at the face. At 46 feet the full width is 7 feet, and assay value 55/9 per ton. In No. 14 level of the Martha lode, ™ ' h ® f°f. cut at 785 feet east, the next 30 feet as quartz of low value. 99e# * diamond drill hole is down feet, and is still in quartz.