MINING

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21258, 1 September 1934, Page 11

MINING

GOLDEN PROGRESS CRUSHING j . j ;r KJ6S3 ASautIATIGJT XSLIGUA.iI.) I DUNEDIN, August 31. ! The secretary of the Golden Pro j gross (Oturehua) Quartz Mining Company reports that crushing has just been completed, 98 tons of ore treated producing 83oz 9d\vt of gold. | BELL-KILGOUR RETURN j j J.SSOCIATIO 51 TEL»<iUi 11.) ! DUNEDIN, August 31. i The Bell-Kilgour wash-up for the week ended August 31 amounted to 11 oz 17d\vt 12gr. GOLDEIELDS DREDGE (rEIiS A33OCIATIO* I'BLIOaAH.) DUNEDIN, August 31. The Goldlields Dredging Company j reports a return for the period ended August 31 o£ 19oz 7dwt for 200 hours. Dredging was on a pug bottom at a depth o£ 16 feet. KING SOLOMON (rrv*,3J A.33OCIA.'CIO;T TELEGRAM.) INVERCARGILL, August 31. The return at the King Solomon mine this week was Gloz sdwt. GOLDEN DAWN RETURN The Golden Dawn return for 12 days ending August 20, was £1229 from 25(1 tons of ore crushed, with gold at £7 2s an ounce. MAORI GULI/Y DREDGE The contractor for building the Maori Gully dredge, near Stillwater, reports that the construction of the pontoon is now well under way. During the week a considerable quantity of material from Hadtields (Sheffield), including 21 of the 71 buckets, the main drive gearing, all motors and equipment, conveyor and screen-lining parts arrived and were delivered to the site. The order for the ladder, winch, and screen, has also been completed. In order to expedite the construction work electrically driven circular and swinging saws, and planer have been installed. A crane has also i been erected and will be operated electrically. This will facilitate deliveries of the heaviest sections to any part of the job. resulting in the saving of time and labour. A full staff is engaged on the work, and an early delivery of the remainder of the material is assured. The completion of the dredge should be well within the time tchedule. SKIPPERS. LIMITED Reporting on the work carried out at the claim of Skippers, Limited, during the last month the company's eonsuiting engineer states that the weather conditions were very unfavourable for mining during this period. ! There were two heavy falls of snow; j the cold was intense, and during the latter half of the month heavy floods ' delayed work both in the paddock and ! i,n the completing of the lluming. The i latter, however, had withstood the j heaviest of floods without suffering I my damage. j Before the floods caused a cessation of work in the first paddock, two-thirds of the area had been bottomed without any disclosure of importance. A deep crevice, filled with big slabs of schist, was encountered near the head of the paddock. Up 1o the time the floods occurred, the wash had not proved to be auriferous in this crevice, when it was still being worked in a downstream direction. By the middle of the month there remained only a distance of CO feet of fluming to be laid. This work has slowed up, owing to the intense cold and continued flooding, no work at all being possible for 12 days. The Diesel electric pumping plant was working when required during this period, and enabled operations to be carried on when the water races were frozen over. The downstream end of the paddock will be cleaned up, while the connecting of the piling with the fluming was being carried out. As soon as this had been done the pipes would be laid on to the site of Mr Smith's first paddock, where he had to abandon a good run of gold owing to the seepage from the river being too heavy for his elevator to cope with. It is anticipated that good gold returns will result from working this portion of the ten acre beach. There still remained a good chance of a run of gold being encountered at the downstream end of the first paddock, as a portion of it had been protected from the scouring action of the waters coming out. of the gorge by a projecting spur of rock. This area would be workable as soon as the short length of piling, being driven between the existing piling and the lluming, was completed. DAIRY PRODUCK LONDON QUOTATIONS (UJiITBU PPRS9 48SOC1A rtOH—I!T ELBCTB.'CI T IjLKGUAPH—COrniIGBT.) LONDON, August 30. Butter is quiet. Danish, 104s. Choicest salted, New Zealand, 77s to 78s. Australian. 745. Unsalted, New Zealand, 80s; Australian, 78s to 80s. Cheese is slow. New Zealand, coloured, 4Gs; white, 495. A. S. Paterson and Company, Ltd., advise that they have received the following cable advice from their London principals, Messrs J. and J. Lonsdale and Company, Ltd.: — Butter —Market steadier. More enquiry. New Zealand 735, Australian 74s to 755, Danish easier, 80s f.o.b. Cheese —Slow. First grade white 495, first grade coloured 45s to 45s 6d. BRITISH CONSUMPTION OF BUTTER REMARKABLE INCREASE LONDON, August 30. The Economic Committee's report on dairy produce for 1933 refers to the remarkable increase in the consumption of butter in the United Kingdom in recent years, reaching 23£lb a head of population. The consumption of eggs Increased to 152 a head. The report also mentions the decline in imports of butter by foreign countries, notably Germany, whose imports because of Government restrictions have declined by 41 per cent, since 1931. From taking over one-quarter of the world's total exports in 1928, Germanv has dropped to taking approximately one-tenth.