BIG RIVER REPORT.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 16

BIG RIVER REPORT.

Holidays during, ith'e month of- April reduced the working dayf* on Big Kiver gold 'mines to' -19. In No. 3 level the rise above No,'i'south drive at 80ft from en- . trance was advanced 19ft; total 26ft, Lode , somewhat.disturbed by small breaks and ; faults, but; averaged 18in in width of clean quartz and fair gold' seen in breaking. ;;3n winze.below No. 1 south drive at Jyoft from lode in south end of j(!Winzo;i4ft/wide, but sniallep in north end 'jbwirigr to'- intrusion of mullock reducing .'the -average;;width to 2ft.6in of- clean quartssi-but-fair gold '-seen in stone and lode Carrie^.a-.little water,,-,ln Jones Reefin intermediate idrive off rise at 50ft above Noi 3;3evc!l,;stone averaging 'sft in.width in which, fine gold. eeen. A south drive opened1 ipnt'.on.'Jiiie:. of fault,, Dnggan's ■ Reef/and-advanced Bft, at which point what app'ears't'ob'e' south-easterly continua--tion;:'of"Duggbn's' Reef -met with; Full width'I'of lode-is'not yet 'exposed,' but! 2ft «£ clean,, highly-mineralised quartz is showing in.(the face. Samples are being forwarded' for asSay. Repair •work-on water race; battery;'and' the cyanide plant- is now practically completed, copper plates in position,- Expected _ crushing will be coinmenced';during coming week. ,