MINING MATTERS AT THE THAMES. (FROM YESTERDAY'S "ADVERTISER.")

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3886, 4 February 1870, Page 4

MINING MATTERS AT THE THAMES. (FROM YESTERDAY'S "ADVERTISER.")

The Mcmnt Pleasant : Latterly the Mount Pleasant Claim has been producing some good stone from two leaders, and yesterday a crushing was commenced atthe Hape Goldmining Company's battery. The Flying Cloud : Owing to some delay on the part of the tramway in sending down stone from the Flying Cloud Claim, Bull's battery, which has been crushing for it, has stopped for the present to allow the stone to accumulate. There are about 40 tons crushed, and the result promises to be more than payable. The Balmoral : It appears that work is about commencing again in this claim, and the shareholders have determined to have a parcel of the stone already to grass crushed. It will be sent to-day to Bull's battery on the Karaka, The Knights of Saint Patrick aie also about sending a 20-ton lot to the same machine, Specimens from Tarant : A parcel of specimens from Tararu, but from which claim we have been unable to ascertain, were crushed at Bull's battery, and the result of 4oz of gold was obtained from 201b, of stone. The Prosperity reef continues to look well in the winze that is being sunk on it, and gold is, we are informed, daily visible. Yesterday a low-level tunnel -was commenced from the tramway, which, when it leaches the reef, will give a level 150 feet between the pi esent workings. To accomplish this the tunnel will have to be put in about 200 feet. Shortly after commencing the drive yesterday, two loaders, one of whioh is about 9m thick, were uncovered, and a prospect was obtained from the stone. The Karaka Hill : Immediately above the Wandering Star, the Captain Cook is situated. It compiises an aiea of five men's ground, and has been worked for about 18 months without intermission Putting the drive m to the present length has been the woik of five months, and there yet remains about 100 feet before the leef, which is almiHb vertical, will be cut. A little claim of two men's ground, lying between the Lord Nelson, Trafalgar, ' and Britannia Companies' ground, has been named the Lady Godiva. A leader, believed to be a continuation of the Una reef, has been opened in a surface cutting, and a ciushing of five tons from it at Bull's battery, a short time since, yielded 4ioz. of gold. The existence of this leader in the claim was know n for a long time, and the shareholders have sunk a shaft to a depth of 52 feet for the purpose of cutting it. The drive is in about 10 feet, and they expect to get the reef shortly. On the south of the Gibraltar, and situa f ed between that claim and the Armstrong, is a claim which has been called the Youn°Gibraltar. This tunnel has been carried in 280 feet, and has taken a considerable length of time, as seveial very hard bars of rock have been cut through. This week they have been successful in cutting into a very promising leef. Gold has been seen in it, and some fine specimens have, we are informed, been turned out of it. The thickness of this reef is not yet known ; it has been cut into about three feet, but the back is not yet reached.

The Otago Company : A fortunate discovery was made in the above company's shaft on Tuesday afternoon, and is likely to lead to important results ; ib supplies conclusive evidence of the existence of payable gold in the lateral branches of the Golden Crown lode. Several specimens were taken out, and look very well, gold being distributed through the stone. Criterion Quartz-crushing Company : A tramway that will anticipate the Government line is being erected up the creek to connect the Peep o'Day and Golden Age Claims with the battery, and also all othera on the line of route ; and a short line has been laid from the battery to the shoot of the West Coast Claim, Messenger's Hill. Cure Company : We were informed last night that the Cure Company had at last succeeded in striking payable quartz. The City of Dunedin : The shareholders of the City of Dunedin have ten head of stampers constantly employed at Russell's battery, and the stone maintains the former promising yield. Between 1,100 and 1,200 ounces of amalgam have accumulated. Harbour View Specimens : A crushing of spe .miens from the Harbour View Claim, Coromandel, was commenced yesterday at the Kuranui Company's battery. The parcel is a considerable one, and contains some pieces of exceedingly rich stone. Mining at Tararu Flat : The shaft being sunk at the foot of the Tararu tramway, in hopes of cutting the reef laid bare in the tramway cutting some weeks ago, is now down forty feet, and driving has commenced in the direction in which the body of stone is supposed to run. Moanataiari Company : Anew leader of blue stone, lying right under and perpendicular to the rich specimen leader, was struck the other day in the Moanataiari Company ! s mine, its size being three and nine inches. A few specimens of good quality .were taken out, and, when a ton or two of the quartz was added to a lot of indifferent stuff that was being put through the battery, the amalgam upon the tables increased in a remarkable manner. Every stamper of the company's fine battery is engaged in reducing stone from the mine. A first parcel of the pyrites is now going through the berdans, after being calcined in the Kuranxii Company's furnace.