MINING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 102, 2 May 1931, Page 7

MINING NEWS.

OPERATIONS AT WAIHI. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WAIHI.. Friday. The following information has been cabled to London :— No. 6 level. No. 2 reef, driving east. — The next 21ft assays 37/ per ton. The width of the lode is about sft. Now hoied through to former workings. No. 9 level. Martha lode. east, in Junction area.—The next 21ft assays 5'9 per ton. No. 11 level. State reef, in Junction area. — ±he next 44ft assays ?■.•/' per ton. The lode is about sft wide* WAIOMO SULPHIDE. Zeehan Section. —No. 1 level : A branch outcrop of the main reef has been located near this level, its width being two feet. worth £3 17/ per ton. It is proposed to rise 90ft from No. i level on the renin reef at a point where payable ore is showing: to make this outcrop accessible. A biock of good milling ore will then bt ( available for economical working. It ;s j intended to resume milling shortly on ore from biocks at Nos. 1 and - levels from ( the intermediate level on Zeehan reef and ' from the winzes on the new reef i:.d Zeehan reef below No. :; level, where good ore is exposed at all point.-. Development on a reef seven feet wide, discovered on the surface about 1300 ft westward of the main crosscut, will bo- undertaken. E ree gold is showing in this ree: at various points. and a survey discloses that 200 ft of driving will ensure a similar height overhead, which, with driving, will increase to 530 J feor. This is a promising development. j In the Monowai section work has been ' restricted to driving at No. - level to ,' locate' a continuation of a rich leader -■bowing westward of the stopes at No level. ~ \ \ MINERAL INDUSTRY. I I (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) t DUXEDIX, Friday. ' "The might or the British Empire ] depends upon the continuance of rfc° j mineral industry." said Professor Park, ar the annual meeting of the mining faculty of Otago University College. A "littleknown fact, he said, was' that in the British Empire the value of the production - .ot the mining industry exceeded more than fonr-foW the value of the productions of the land, including cotton, jute tobacco ' wool, grain, cheese and butter MOANATAIARI. MOKE PICKED STONE. The manager of the lluanataiari mine telegraphed this morning: "Secured ISlb of picked stone, equal to the last, from the I MngiagwaH reef."