MINING.
WEST COAST RETURNS. (rassa association telegram.) REEFTON, August 12. The Pactolus dredge obtained 40oz lOdwt for 168 hours' work. Keen-jt-Dark Mine crushed 1070 lons of ouartz for lOOoz 2dwt of gold; cytnide, lOloz lSuwt; total. 2330 aof go:d. Tnc report °tates that there has been a cons:derab.e increase in the returns s:ncc they started inline slopes on the south-east oi tho rise. The prospects arc exceeding? good. The "Just-in-T.me Company reports that the surface reef'has been traced for 80 feet. The stone ia Uue« feet wide, and carries gold.
ROSS GOLDFIELDS, LTD. M _____ WORK .TO BE RESUMED. •(special to "the press.'^) GKEYMOUTH. August 12. Mr Cox, the newly appointed manager of tho Ross Flat GoldSelda, Ltd. has received instructions to commer.ee. operations in tho direction of unwntering the mine, and to engage enough underground workers to cope with tho work as soon as the unweterino; is accomplished. These instructions havo been iriven in consequence of the receipt by the d'rectors of a sufficient number of votes by shareholders approving of the work being carried out at once.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14432, 13 August 1912, Page 8
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