MINING NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15131, 23 October 1912, Page 5

MINING NEWS.

HANDSWORTH.

A RETURN OF £558.

Th*. manager of the Handsworth mine, Kuaotunu, telegraphed yesterday: — " Handsworth treated 501b specimens and 12 tons general ore for 2310z melted gold, value £558."

NOTES. Tho manager of the Dominion mine, Karangahake. reports that the water has now eased off sufficiently at the low level to allow work to be resumed.

The south-west drive in the Kuranui mine, Thames, is now in 78ft. The root for the last few feet of driving has been somewhat disturbed and diminished in size owing to a break of a soft, puggy nature crossing the face at a long angle. Tho north-east drivo in the Bonanza mine. Tin-am is now in 14ft from the main drive. On the hangiugw&d a hard belt of country came in, making progress bad. Tho leader has pinched, but is now widening again. In tho TeUurides Proprietary mine, Maratoto, during the week all the air and water pipe connections were made with the main crosscut, and now everything is ready to fc starfc work with the rock drills at this point. The manager of the Rising Sun mine, KarangaUke, states that in the low level tunnel tho country is favourable. lho width of the lode formation is the same, with indications of making into sulphide pre. It continues to yield good prospects of gold by mortar test. In the Golden Cross mine, Waitekauri, the width of the reef passed through during the week at the intermediate level was 10ft. Tho manager reports that the average value of the assays is good. Arise has been started from the low level, and a small stringer about Ift wide lias been, met with which is, in the manager's opinion, a dropper off the reef, giving fair prospects in the dish. The winze on No. 2 reef in the Occidental Consolidated mine, Thames, is«now down 38ft below the 70ft level. Good country is still being penetrated and the reef broken down during the week showed ffbod dabs of gold. In the south drive on No. 2 reef the south-east branch, of the reef has been stripped for about 6f but no quartz was broken from the face, lho reef in the continues about the same, gold being seen in the ore at each breaking down. Twenty-five pounds of picked stoned was taken from the general ore broken last week. The main drive on the reef in the Waitangi: mine, Tararu. is now in o744ffc. ine manager states that. the reef is about- oft ; wide and that a good class of country is still showing. on both walls. The north crosscut is in 57ft from the main drive. A : few veins of quartz were passed through, but nothing of any,: size. .The south crosscut "is in 87ft from 4 the main drive. A sample from the main drive, 10ft back from tho face and .taken' for a width of Sit, gave an'assay value of 45.6 d per ton. The manager of the Watchman mine, Thames, 'xeoorts that during the past week the' cutting* and timbering of the chamber in No.'l rise has:" been • completed, _ lho reef in the first stbpe. measures about lOtt wide, through- which gold can be seen equally distributed. ; No.- 1 winze .is now down '47ft. - A further sft will reach the floor of -the 70ft level; when a crosscut will be put in to intersect the reef. No. 4 rise is now up 76ft. At this point the reef continues to show improvement, there'being "6ft: of quartz :heavily charged with sulphides and zinc blende. Next week the manager intends putting on J two shifts ior the purpose of reaching the point; where it ■is" proposed to open out for an intermediate. level-as' speedily as' possible. The etopo on the western Parallel reef is in hand. as. usual, and a good supply of ore is being won for treatment. On middle Parallel reef the drive is in 55ft.'1 The lode in both faces looks well and is of largo dimensions. "A" piece of sulphide ore from the western Parallel lode in No. 4 ; rise, above the Royal Charter Sunbeam horizon, may bo seen at the office of the secretary, Mr,, W. J, Nicholl. The sample gave an excellent assay value. •< ' -