GOLD MINING

Grey River Argus, 17 September 1934, Page 7

GOLD MINING

The Bell-Hooper Cromwell Gold Company. Ltd., return for tihe week ending September 11 was 31oz 6dhvt. Last week’s return for the Worksop Extended field Dredging Company is 3.80 z 13dw( for 131 hours’ dredging. N'.tkomai Gobi Alining Company reports completion of thp partially excavated paddock. The return] from the area situated at, the foot of the hill, on the east side of the claim, is !85'az 16dwt 12gr. More than half of the paddock had a high rock bottom carrying very little gold.

The Maeircwhen mi Goldfields Company is reported, to have commenced sluicing on a large scale. For some time winte?i conditions made it almost impossible, bu’t with the warm weather, work had been resumed, and three nozzles have been working steadily. It is expected five nozzles will be 'working ,at full pressure within a Aveek or two.

Yesterday’s quotations were: Big River Is 4d. Is 6d; Argo Gold Dredging (3d paid) 4 |d, I’d; Ben Lodi (Vs paid) Is, Is O.jd; Industries Ltd, (12s 6d paid) Is 6d, —; Maori Gully (9d paid) 9d. 104 d; Macetown (Is paid) Is 2.’d, Is 4d; N.Z. Mining Invest. —, Ils; Opitonui Develop. 5s 3d. —; Stafford Sluicing Is. Is 3»l; I ppor Shotover (9d paid) JlHd, - —; Grand Junction 4s 3Ad, 4s 6d; Waitahu 4s 4d, 4s 6d; Worksop Extended —. 2s: Addison’s Flat —. 2s 7s : Alexander 18s <Bd. —; Alexander (14s paid) 15s 2d, 15s 9d; Bell-Hooper —, sd; BcilK'lgour I’d, 3d; Bendigo Goldlights lid. Is OJd; Moonlig.'/t-Nelson (’reek 2d. —; Mining House —. 4Jd; Mossy Creek Is 64d. Is 7MI; Mount Lyell 20s Id, 20s gd; Mount Morgan 345, 36s Gd; Nevis Diesel s}d. 6d; Nokomai 4s. 4s Id; North Broken Hill —. 100 s; Okarito Ss 4d, 8s 10d; Oxenbridge —. Is; Paddy’s Point —. sd; Lawson’s Flat 34d, Id; Maerewhenua —. 54 d; Mahakipawa 10d, 104 d; Mahakipawa. (pref.) 1929, —, ls 44d; Mahak'pawti (pref.) 1930, Is 2pl; Is 3Ad; Malaki 2s Gid. 2s 9d ; Big River Is 4d, Is 6d; Blackwater 32s Gd. 33s sd; Brian Bo'ai Is sd. Is sld; Deep Lead Is 7ld. Is 9d; Gillespie’s Beach Is 9-ld, Is 10d; Glenroy Is 2d. Is 3d; irolden Point 2|d. 3d; Golden Sands 2s 84d, —; Goldfields Dredging lid, is 04d; HattcC’s Flatt lid, —; KiV daro Is lid. —.