MINING MATTERS. (FROM SATURDAY'S "THAMES ADVERTISER.'')

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3966, 9 May 1870, Page 4

MINING MATTERS. (FROM SATURDAY'S "TH AMES ADVERTISER. '')

The Golden Age : A further crushing for the Golden Age Company was crushed on Friday. The stone now going through is from the same fine reef that has already yielded such good returns. Prospecting in the other parts of the company's ground is going on. On Friday gold was struck in a part of the old Union Company's ground, which has hitherto been untried. The Shamrock : A crushing of about 90 tons of stuff from the Shamrock was finished oa Friday at the Criterion batteiy. Several parcels of this stuff, that have bepn already crushed, have given remunerative returns. The reof is a fina strong body of stone, and Jikely to hold its course through even a Harder country than that througli which it »a at present being followed, u % %1J?% 1J ?, rat and .Rising Sun sWe learn (bat tba Bdlatat Mid Bieing Son Claim will soon be wanned again,' antf the only pity is that xt has been left so long idle. J The fine position in which it stands for the Shamrock reef, and several fine leaders besides, should have been sufficient inducement for a more vigorous system of working than has yet been adopted. . The West Coast : Work was stopped on Friday in the West Coast Claim,, and the shareholders are making preparations for entering a low-level drive.thjrough the ground, of the Bachelor's Company. It is * well known that several- large reefs exist in this hill. I. 3 ? 1 . 6 YoHng 'Reefefc <: It appears that within the last few days _the ground of the' .Youug Keefers'^Ooinpany; in r the Waiotalii; '*

has been taken up by a party of men as abandoned ground. The men have set-to to draw the timbers out of the shaft. They appear to have no intention of working the ground, as they consider the only value of the mine is the timber that secures the workings.