MINING NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11752, 28 November 1903, Page 5

MINING NEWS.

There will be no wash up on the New <Conimi£sioner's Flat Company's dredge this week, as operations hare (been interrupted. The dredge was to, recommence work last night. The 'Greenstone Three Mile Company's dredge w*s refloated on Tuesday night, and th* leak was temporarily stopped. The return from tho Reeves's Proprietary Company's dredge is 7os 17dwt for 85 hours' work this -week. This is from the top mats only. The dredge stopped on Monday owing to the ladder having been beat, and operations were resumed last night. The master of the Greenstone Creek Company's dredge, reporting on the 21st — st., state 3 that the average depth of the wash was 25ft, /width of face about 300 ft, and amcunt of wash dredged 10,878 cmbio yards, or —l average of 9.1 eubio yards per hour. The wash was similar ia character to that treated the previous week. Timber met with in the face is still causing trouble. The necessity for name new buckets ia shown by the fact that some at present in use have no bottoms Ho them.

The alluring news from the mining districts of the north and from Bolivia, of the .profits to Ibe. obtained ifrom gold dredging- there is attracting attention (says tho 'Buenos Avers corresipondent of th© "Pa»toralists' Review"}. One of the most important districts is to fee iound in Bolivia in a sole through which the river San Juan da Oro runa. All the surroaadUrig country is marked with the old workingia of tho Inoaj and early Spaniards and its reputation as a gold-bearing region has always been known. 'Attention ia now turned to ©old drodginig the river itself. Under the first Git at shingle, etc.. there He some 80ft of igolA-beuir.x deposit before the bedrock is reached, and the return iper cabio yard is reported a* surpassing in richness all similar reefs. Messrs Cutten Bros., of New Zealand, have been invited to examine the river, ond operation* are to >be commenced shortly- The projected Argentine-Bolivian Railway ia to run along the left bank of the San Juan de Oro Raver for a considerable distance.