MINING MATTERS. GRAHAMSTOWN, Monday.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXI, Issue 5515, 27 April 1875, Page 3

MINING MATTERS. GRAHAMSTOWN, Monday.

Cuiti:. — Retoitmg for the Cnrc Company will not take place to-day, as the tieatment of the debris headings and tailings h.is ooeujucd more time than was anticipated ; Init the yield will bo a brilliant one, for both gcneuil stall' and specimens ha\e proved far richer than was expected. On Satin day night there were i)02o/. ani.ilg.iin on hand. Tins was after the specimen amalgam h.id been 1 oughly treated, Ijiit the final cleaning up will, in Jill likelihood, give a- tot.il ot l,000oz. of amalgam, or considerably over 300o/. of gold from about ."SO to (iO tons of stall. I'i mi'inu Association. — While waiting the catting of the cistern chamber at the bottom of the shaft, the manager is starting another tiial crashing of stuff from the bottom, consisting of 5 or 6 tons of quart/ and nibble taken oat from the same lode and same level as that from which the recent tiicil lot which yielded 5chvt. to the ton was obtained. The present parcel has not been selected with such care as the former, and it may, theiefore, not yield so well, but it will, at all events, afford a more aocuiate test, and if it yields as high an average it will pay well for clashing. The cutting of the cistern Chamber is now the only woik m progress, and when this is completed the sinking of the shaft with the new lS-inch pumps will be resumed. Ol-l> WllAU. — Of course, during the long stoppage of the company's ciushmg mill dm nig the drought, the battery bauds have been suspended or discharged, and the consequence is, th.it now that rain lias fallen, and that there ia an opportunity of crushing the stiilf which has accumulated, there is more difficulty than was anticipated in pi ociuing the requisite force. The company are now advertising for the scimccs ot an engine-driver, and the manager and otheis are endeavouring to get competent hands together to treat the stuff on hand. There are now about GO tons on hand, although since the falling off of the water the mine has been worked with a reduced force, but when Liushint; cnminenccs a laiger numbei of ition will undoubtedly be staitcd to woik to bieak out io<A fiom the woi kings wliuh an now opened — fCoriuspondent.]