MINING.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14983, 2 June 1914, Page 8

MINING.

THE KEEP-IT-DARK MINK. SIGN' OF QUxVRTZ -vc EVERY HAND. iSraCIAC TO "THK IRES?.") GREYMOUTH. Jim* 1. \ reporter visited tho Keep-it-Dark Mine on" Wednesday, and was most courto-uat, li., v -i over it by the mine maxiag.-'t, Mt t,7' ' Kl'.crv. Chief interest in the mine at _Tx-_."t us'centred on th. .4»_t.rmcuiatc be . I' -< os s £:id 0 levels, tor here :s to be found that hi-; block of stone from which :i"_ h _nd-om* return of -130-J odd last n.onth "..„ obtained. Getting out at No. 8 chamber the representative was • tUiov.-.. _~,a H, 517 jeet irom the shaft a crosscut put in s-ire "ten or twelve feet in order to connect with the rise from the intermedia.. !>?;n<. put up from thc bottom. Ibe s-iina ~: tie Ho-ee'iekl machine in tho rtopea b.!ow oould bo 'plaiiii- heard, and another forty cr Sitv £e~t will "cn_blo -a connexion then by means of the wir.ze in. >>*->• 3. The ptvrty crept down to the -too-, txefore them were piled masses of m_f.nificent .tone, the r«( being 20 feet wide with stone on thc hei-d and at ioct. Great chambers had been cut out ol the gleaming quartz, acd it was being shovelled away _s fa«t as possible. It was just after crib timo, and Uv- stone lay broken aft?r the firm.;. Thi? \>" an encouraging eight, but a tew yards further on we camo to an <-yen hotter one. Here tho gre-t wall of stone lay. There were walls, roofs, and floors of it. The future of the mine concerning which many mv«.t have felt doubtful is therefore practically assured.