PUHIPUHI SILVER FIELD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8727, 18 November 1891, Page 5

PUHIPUHI SILVER FIELD.

Oor "Waipu correspondent writes :The j Waipu Prospecting Association continue to receive favourable reports from their holding at Pnhipuhi. There are about 50 tons of first-class graded ore in stack, and Mr. G. Clark Walker has made (four assays from the stuff taken from different parts of the heap, and the returns range from 3310zs up to lOSOozs per ton. One of the assays showed •lOdwtaof gold. Roturns are also to hand of an assay test made at the Thames School of Mines, of a parcel of stone taken from the same reef as the above-mentioned stack came from by Mr. Wilson, Mining Inspector, and the returns are as follows Bullion per ton, 1660zs 17dwts ogrs; silver, 16407-5 9dwts Bgns; gold, 2ozs Tdwts 21grs ; value per ton, £34 ss. Tho Association are now endeavouring to make arrangements for tho treatment of 2 tons taken from the stack now to hand—one ton to be forwarded, to the Thames School of Mines, and one ton to be treated at the Prospectors battery at Puhipuhi. Some people think that' the future fate of the Puhipuhi silver field is hanging on the test of these parcels, so it is sincerely to be hoped that great care and judgment will be exercised in their treatment. The reef from which this stuff is taken is now about 5 feet wide, and thoroughly well-defined, and silver shows right through it from wall to wall. It has been christened tho " Surprise" somewhat appropriately. The Waipu prospectors had been working on a small leader about 20 inches wide, and the drive by which they gained access to it was situated about 40 feet higher up the spur than the present workings ; but during the heavy rains of the past winter tho roof of the first drive fell in, and it was decided to open up a new one lower down, in the hope that tho leader they had been working on might show better at a lower level, and also to obtain safer ground for mining operations ; and it was during tho progress of this work that the grand reef now in hand was struck, giving the miners and the Waipu Prospecting Association, who had been supporting them, a pleasant, andj, Jet us hope, a fortunate surprise. 5

It; will be seen from our advertisement columns that Messrs. YV. H. Fenton and Co.'a mercery has arrived,- and that they intend to dispose of all of it at landed cost. The sale will i commence next Saturday, November 21st;, at ten a.m. i