MINING NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 101, 29 April 1912, Page 8

MINING NEWS.

TALISMAN. LOCAL DIRECTORS' REPORT. Mr. R. B. Jackson (Nelson), of the Talisman local board, returned on Saturday from a visit which, in company with Dr. Knight (another member of tho board), bo had paid to the mine. Mr. Jackson states that the reef north of the bottom of No. 12 winze has been madeagain, and ore for a width of four feet ie showing, giving value* tho highest yet obtained hi tho mine. The south drive from bottom of No. 12 winze has carried good values throughout, although at # present the face is not in s*uoh" good ' ore. This however, the management regards as merely temporary, and expocts in the next few feet that the values will be back again. It is a feature of the mine that the. values vary in this way. The 14th level has now been sufficiently developed to say that already it is by far tho richest level yet opened up in the mine. The winze from No. 13 level to No. 14 level in the Dubbo is already down 60 feet with good values. The possibilities of the 13th level south are not yet exhausted. The country rock is favourable, and the management considers >vhon the working of the mine will allow further driving to be resumed with economy, the prospects of picking up another 6hoot of ore are good. The ore reserves show a very substantial advance on those disclosed at the last annual general meeting. Dr. Knight and Mr. jEckson went carefully through the plans and estimates of probable ore reBorveft, arid in this connection point out thai all such rsl.iinates are but guesses ai. frutli, and that they are but approximate. When, therefore, _ mine managers are asked to make e^timatps of this character they quite propprly safeguard thenrolveN by making them on a most conservative ba«i«, imd Mr. Stansfield ha« apparently not departed from thin custom. The oro already milled during tho lust fou? yparß above No. 12 level has exceed ed both in quantity and value any estimates given by the management, und it U thought the e>ame will apply to the oro above No. 14 level, and that disclosed by Hie drives off No. 12 winze below it.