MINING NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 2

MINING NEWS.

TALISMAN CONSOLIDATED. Tho following cable was dispatched on Monday to tho London office of the Talisman Consolidated Company: ' "No. 13 lovol— Sinking No. 16 winze, progress 26ft ; tho reof is wider than the winze: assay value £3 Is 9d. No. 14 level-Driving north, progress 14ft; tho roof ia 12in wide; values low. Driving north from' No. 12 winze, from 52ft to 72ft tho reef is 24in wide; valuos low. From 72ft toJKift tho reefis.24in wide; assay value £7 10s. Driving couth from No. 12 w'insse, progress 21ft; the reef is 42iu widoj assar value £2 4s. Woodstock shaft sunk 14ft/' MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS. Thames Deep Levels.— Tho contractors for tho deep level main crosscut have driven a further distance of 33ft for tho week. Tho country is of a. moro broken nature, and- requires to bo kopt timbered up. A email leader a' few inches in thickness was passed through during .the week in tho Moanataiuri imbsidiary crosscut, which is being driven on the course of tho Saxon No. 2 reef. A total distance of 56ft has been driven from tho main crosscut. Tho reef is at present split up into two portions, and is pneased in eomewlmt puggy country. It will bo necessary for a change of country to tako place before any favourable results oan be expected. May Queen.— Tho Bright Smile crosscut is now passing through vory favourable country. , There is stnl about 40ft to drivo to reach Iho point at which the lode that passed through tho chamber should be met with. Tho manager Btates that this lodo is probably responsible for tho small lodos that woro passed through in the main crosscut not being mot with in tho May Queen crosscui,' aa.it is a Btrong quartz formation, and would bo likely to carry with it any smaller lode- joining, and when it is met with should <bo a largo body. Tho riso in tho Exchange roof is now up 80ft, tho reef at present being a clay formation with very littlo quartz, and underlying flat. Owing to the number of breaks mot with rocentlj, it is thought that tho lodo has boon missed, and a fow stopos ore being carried up from tho riso to the junotion of the mineral lode. In doing this good crushing dirt should be obtained. At No. 1 6 level, thu stopos on tho hangingwall branch of No. 4 lodo are being carried along, and the quartz still shows gold.,