SPECIMENS FROM THE SYLVIA.
The rich quality of bhe ore now being found in bhe low level of the Sylvia mine, Tararu, cannob fail to prove highly sabisfacbory and encouraging bo bhe shareholders. A fine sample of rich ore from the reef was on view yesterday ab Mr. T. Seymour T. George's offices, Exchange Buildings, and ib attracted a good deal of attention. Ib is a good-sized lump, about eighb inches long, four" inches wide, and bhree inches thick, containing on bhe outside a belb of whibe sugary silica, bhe inberior being deep blue with white dabs. Ib is heavily mineralised in places with copper pyrites, bub its great feabure is thab it conbains a rich streak of fine gold, almosb an inch in widbh, and going righb bhrough the block, besides which gold shows on other surfaces of the stone. The reef where bhife ore was taken from is, we are Informed, eighb feeb thick, and the level has now reached nearly bo bho place where bhe run of gold found in bhe upper workings was expected bo be found.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8630, 28 July 1891, Page 6
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181SPECIMENS FROM THE SYLVIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8630, 28 July 1891, Page 6
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