MINING NOTES FROM AUSTRALIA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3354, 16 April 1868, Page 4

MINING NOTES FROM AUSTRALIA.

X otder to afford to oar readers at the Thames, and others interested in mining matters, an insight into the yield at present obtainable from some of the most noted claims in Victoria, we publish the following mining notes from recent files of the Melbourne Argus:— Beehive Company, Maldon.—Two lots of tributers' ■tone crushed during the week gave respectively Cloz. 3dwt. 18gr. from thirty-four tons, and 13oz. lOdwt. 6gr. from fqur ton» and a half. The various other parties continue to obtain prospects somewhat similar to late crushing!. Arrangements will bo made M early as possible [for working the deep ground, either on tribute or on the company's account. Comet Company, Bendigo.—l29 tons crushed, inolnding the stone from the Black Reef, gave a return of lOOoz. 2dwt. 12gr. Shaft sunk, lft. Bin. Total depth, 509 ft. Bin. Receipts for week, £402 9a. 6d., including aisay of last gold. Expenditure, £285 19i. 3d. Ellesmere Company, Bendigo.—l34 tons of stone, entirely from the engine shaft workings, were passed through the stamps for a yield of 105z. 19dwt. retorted gold. Good stone is seen in the stopes from tbe bottom level, as well as in the 312 ft. stopes on the east side, and a continuance of favourable returns is looked for. Receipts, £416 Is. lOd. j expenditure being tributers' per-centage. Mariner's Reef Company, Maryborough.—The returns for four weeks ending 14th instant are reported thus :—s32 tons of stuff crushed, consisting^ of 420 tons from Battery Reef and 112 from Soldiers" Reef; the former yielding 760z. Bdwt. 12gr., and the latter lOoz. 6dwt. of gold, besides which 4oz. 3dwt. were obtained from tailings, making the total return 90oz. 17dwt. 12gr. £46 ss. for public crushing brought the receipts up to £425 3s. 6d., to cover a pay sheet amounting to £345 Os. 3d. The workings of the Phcßnix Company, at this company's south boundary, have exposed a reef from two to four feet thick, which is expected to be payable. Speculation Company, Maldon. — The manager report*, under date 21st instant :—" The tributers ofjthe middle and western reefs have had sixteen tons quartz raised and crushed, resulting in 41oz. 6dwt. 18gr. smelted gold, this fortnight, of which the company received a tribute of 20 per cent." The Two to One Reef at Rutherglen (Campbell and party) crnshed yesterday at the Golden Bar machine, Chiltem, thirteen tons stone, which yielded 990z. sdwt. . Eagle Company, Specimen-hill, Bendigo.—The manager writes, under date 16th March, that sixty tons of stone, crushed from the 300-feet level, yielded soz. 16dwt. of gold. South Jersey Company, Stony Rises.—The mining manager reports:—The tributers have finished cleaning up and laying the tramway at the ninety-foot level, north of engine shaft, and have commenced to break out quartz. The lode is abont two feet wide, well defined, and showing gold (about lOdwt. to the ton). The tributera anticipate to bank from twentyfive to forty tons of quartz per week. The company receives twenty per cent, from the gross yield of all gold obtained from the backs of the 160-foot, and 10s. per ton for The tributers will at once commence to sink the new engine shaft to the depth of 220 feet, which will leave the sixty feet of backs below our present deepest level. The company receive twenty-five per cent, from all gold obtained below the 160* foot level, and 15s. per ton for crushing and burning, if required.