THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9205, 20 May 1893, Page 5

THE GOLDFIELDS.

(BT TJCLKQRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT,] Thames, Friday. uakemabkkt. —Albumin, sellers 4s, buyers

38 6d; Cambria, rollers la 31; Calliope, sellers 3d ; Hazelbank, sellers 3s, buyers '2s 9d; May Queen, sellers 2s; Moanataiari, sellers 4s ; Orlando, buyers 8d ; Saxon, sellers 8d ; Victoria, sellers 3d ; Silver-ton, sellers Is.

Victoria.—A crushing of 18 loads of quartz and 10 pounds of picked stone from the hanging wall leader was completed to-day, for the return of 250z 3dwt melted gold. The trial parcel from the new footwall leader has not yet been treated. Alburnia..— reef in the western drive at the 70 feet level is again divided by about six Inches of sandstone. The hanging wall portion is about 2$ feet in thickness,and the footwall portion IS inches, the latter being composed of a nice class of a ...neraltsed quartz, and carrying a good deal of silica. The othor workings are unchanged. Mr. Dunlop has taken possession of the Saxon battery, but as some repairs are required and several of the berdans require being re-lined it will take until Wednesday or Thursday next before everything will be in readiness to start crushing ; meantime, however, quartz will bo sent down from the mine, a start having been raado yesterday. Hazelbamk. — parcel of 401 ba of picked stone was obtained from the stopes upon Darby's leader, tho bulk of which came from the cross reef in tho leading stope above No. 2 intermediate level, where there is a little improvement noticeablo in the reef from what it previously was. The rise which la being up from No. 3 level in order to connect with the winze upon Darby's leader below the No. 1 intermediate level is up a height of about 40 feet, and is penetrating a good class of sandstone. In order to facilitate the connection between this working and the winze, Mr. Coutts to-day cleared out the gas which has been lying in the winze for some two or throe weoks past, with the intention of resuming sinking operations at once.

May Queen. —Tho crushing which has been in progress for this company during the last three or four weeks was completed today for the payable yield of 150oz 13iwt molted gold. For this roturn 98 loads of quartz were treated, about two-thirds of which was broken from No. 4 reef in the drive and stopes at No. 3 level, whilst the remainder was obtained from tho same reef in the winze sunk from No. 2 to No. 3 level during the time the lattor level was flooded with water, so that the return may be taken as a fair sample of the value of the block now being opened up. and may also be considered as a satisfactory result. Crushing will now be suspended for a few days, in order to allow of a reserve of quartz being again accumulated, and to give a little more time for proceeding with the development of the now level, so that more stopes can be commenced; but crushing will bo resumed again at as early a date as possible, when it will probably be of a permanent character. Operations in the mine are being carried on with very encouraging prospocts. To-day several foet of the reef was broken down in the eastern drive, when colours of gold we're seen, and the quartz looked very promising, the reef being about 15 inches thick. Colours of gold were also seen in the leading stopo going westward at the point where the st-ope is passing through the large flinty.