MINING.

Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 3111, 5 August 1878, Page 2

MINING.

REEFTON". We collate the following items from the Herald, of Thursday : — The Welcome, after putting through a little over 600 tons of quartz, cleaned up, and retorted the amalgam yesterday. The average yield per ton is about 28<iwts. , The Hopeful also had a general cleaning yesterday. Since the last retorting there have been 215 tons reduced ; the amount of gold obtained from same is 332 oz to lOdwts. The Fiery Cross mine manager has sent down stone previous to starting, which will be commenced some time during to-day. The Just-in-Time winze still continues to show a good body of stone, and from the workings at times there is some very rich gold-bearing stone obtained. There will not be many weeks elapse be« fore the manager of tha Welcome is prepared to start another large crushing, and it is, I believe, the intention of the company to put through a couple of thousand tons of atone before the end of the year. MOONLIGHT. Mr Allan Macdonald, manager of the Moonlight Gold Mining Co, reports under date July 20: "The last fortnight 1 have driven 14ft, the reef varying in size from 18i'i to 3ft, carrying good prospects of loo*e tj'ild, with occasional small dabs in the solid sfcone. The country, as wo gain on the hill, is qpM ing more solid, and not so wet as it has been."