MINING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1934, Page 8

MINING

GOLDEN PROGRESS CRUSHING DUNEDIN. 31sf August, r l lie secretary of t lie Golden Progress (Otiirelnin) Quartz Mining Company reports that, crushing hits just, been completed, 98 tons of ore. treated producing 83oz 9dw( of gold. BELL-KILGOUR RETURN DUNEDIN, 31st. August..’ The Bell-lCilgotir wash-up for the week ended 3.lst August amounted to lloz ITtlwl 12gr. GOLDFIELDS DREDGE DUNEDIN. 31st August. ’I he Goldfields Dredging Company reports a return for the period ended '3lst. August of 19oz 7dwt for 200 hours. Dredging was on a pug bottom at a. depth of 16 feet. KING SOLOMON INVERCARGILL, 31st August. ’I he return at the king Solomon mine this week was 61oz sdwt. GOLDEN DAWN Tlie Golden Dawn return for 12 days ending 20th. August, was £1229 From 256 tons of ore crushed, with gold at £7 2s an ounce. SKIPPERS, LIMITED Reporting oil the work earned out. at the claim of Skippers, Limited ’during the last month the company’s eonsuiting engineer states that the weather conditions were very unfavourable for mining during this period. There were two heavy falls of snow; the cold was intense, and during the latter half of the month heavy Hoods delayed work both in the paddock and on the completing of tlie limning. The latter, however, had withstood the heaviest of Hoods without suffering any damage. Before the Hoods caused a cessation of work in the first paddock, two-thirds ot the area had been bottomed without any disclosure of importance. A deep crevice, filled with big slabs of schist, was encountered near the bead of the paddock. Up to the time the Hoods occurred, the wash bad not proved to be auriferous in this crevice, when it was still being worked in a downstream direction.

By the middle of the month there remained only a distance of 39 feet of (hulling to. he laid. This work has slowed up. owing to the intense cold and continued Hooding, no work at all being possible for 12 days.

The Diesel electric pumping plant. was working when required during this period, ami enabled operations to be carried on when the water races wet" frozen over.

j The downstream end of the paddock 1 will be cleaned up, while tlie connecting of the piling with the Hunting was being carried out. As soon ns this bad been done the nines would be laid on to the site of Mr Smith’s First paddock, where he had to abandon a good run of gold owing to the seepage from the river being too heavy for his elevator jto cope with. It is anticipated that good gold returns will result. from working this portion of the ten acre beach. There still remained a good chance of a run of gold being eiieouu- | tered at the downstream end of the j first paddock, as a portion of it had 1 been protected from the scouring action of tlie waters coming out of tlie gorge by a. projecting spur of rock. This area would he workable as soon as tlie short length of piling, being driven between the existing piling and

tlie lliiniiug, was completed. For Children’s Hacking Coughs Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure