MINING NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15549, 5 March 1914, Page 5

MINING NEWS.

WAIHI GRAND JUNCTION.

RETURN FOR SIX WEEKS.

£25,290 FROM 12,640 TONS.

TOTAL TO DATE, £323,986,

With 38.9 stamps running 35 2-3 clays, the Waihi Grand Junction Geld Mining Company. Ltd.. crushed and treat, d for the period ending in February 12.640 tons of ore, for a return of bullion valued at £25.290 2s 7d. Owing to the shortness of the period following the Christmas and New Year holidays, a return was not made for January, and this one is the first return for the year. Compared with the return for the corresponding period of 36 days of last year, the present figures reveal an increaw of £15,711 Is sd. The total amount of bullion won from the mine to data is £323,03& 10s 9<l, as the following table of details shows :—

To end of 1907 £59.626 II 8 ' 1908. 40,0611 . u r.s .. .. .. 70,313 1:1 ), 1909. 59.147 ions 99.016 A 81910. 83.313 '/.in 133.522 13 7 1 1911. 105.956 tons 150.729 10 0 : 1912. 41,712 tons 73.363 9 9: 1913. 93.37-2 ions 180.110 2 9 1 . . i Total £796.696 8 '2 i Period ending— I February, 1911. 12.640 tons .. £25.290 2 7 I Total to date .. £823,986 10 9 Total dividends paid to date.. £60,000 The following cablegram was sent to the head office of the Waihi Grand Junction Company, London, vestcrdav : — "Main shaft (No. 1) is now down 1202 ft. Sinking has been hampered by breakdown of I Turbo sinking pump ; damage is already i repaired. Intend to open out No. 7 level at 1200 ft. Main east crosscut to north of , Empire lode. No. 6 level : At 300 ft interj sccted ijuartz body 16ft wide. 6ft assays I 22s per ton ; balance, low grade. Empire ] main lode. No. 6 level : Winze No. 9— '■ Depth 60ft : 38in width of winze assays i £4 12s 9d per ton ; footwali only exposed. ! Empire No.. 6 level, winze No. 5 : Depth ; 50ft; ore width of winze 36in, a.-sav £4 i4s per ton ; footwali exposed. Footwali I leader No. 6 level : Winze No. —Depth, : 49t"t ; 34in ore assays £3 2s ; no walls ex- . posed.*'

ROSS GOLDFIELDS. | RETURN OF £88. The weekly return from the Ross Goldfields states that 220z Bd\vt of gold were won from 833 trucks. The value of this return ; s approximately £88. The mine superintendent reports that there were no developments in the winze, and slow progress is being made. WARDEN'S COURT. NAME OF STREAM DISPUTED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN" CORRESPONDENT.] Coromandel, Wednesday. At the Warden's Court at Coromandel 1 yesterday, applications made by Tony ; Petrie. represented by Mr. F- P. Burgess, for two special sites and two waterraces were objected to by Quentin McConnell and Angus McNeil, on behalf of the Gallant Syndicate. Mr. Moresby appeared for the objectors, who said the applicant's pegs were on the bank of the : Whangarahi Creek, but the applications ! specified Driving Creek, and were conse- ! quently misleading, inaccurate and irregular. The objectors claimed priority of | water rights in the Whangarahi Stream. I Applicant produced a document purports ; "ng to be an agreement between himself • and the Gallant Syndicate, signed by J. ; C. Hardie, J. H. C. Hunter and F. R. Jones, of Auckland, settling all matters in dispute before the Court. But the objectors declined to recognise the agree- | ment, as all the shareholders were not j consulted, and only Driving Creek was mentioned. In cross examination, the objectors both admitted that they were not [ misled as to which creek it was intended ! to take water from, and believed that the i use of the wrong name was merely a clerical mistake and not intentional. But they j maintained that Whangarahi was the j name of the main creek and that Driving Creek was only a small tributary. They admitted that unfriendly feeling wa's pretty high between McConnell and Petrie. For the applicants, evidence was given by F. Turner, county engineer, T. W. Rhodes, M.P., George Edwards, Charles Mills, and Frederick Bostelmann that the main creek was always known as Driving Creek and the tributary as Quayles, or Kapanga Greek. E. J. Banks, F. Dison and the applicant gave evidence as to pegging. ! The Warden said it seemed clear that the creek referred to was more generally ; known by the English name of Driving I Creek than by the Maori name of Whangarahi and allowed the application to be i amended to read "Driving Creek otherwise known as Whangarahi Stream." He said no one had been deceived or misled and dismissed the objection with costs, £5 6s. Priority o? water-rights was granted to Petrie The applications were adjourned to allow the production of a certificate. NEW WAITAIA. The intermediate drive north at the New Waitaia mine, Kuaotunu, has been extended 7ft, making a total ol 22ft north of the new rise. The country was firm, but favourable for gold, while the reef was improving in appearance. It was Bin wide, and the white quartz was gradually giving place to a dark-coloured stone, carrying nice minerals, but no values. When broken down at the portion of the reef sloping south from the new rise, the ore looked well and showed gold freely. In the centre of the block some very good ore came to hand during the week (Though it could not be classed as picked stone, blotches of gold, over lin in I diameter, and going well into the stone, were showing, and gold was still left in the back. The reef in the stope beating north from the main rise had pinched to 9in in the face, but was over 3ft wide in the back, with gold showing. The rise at the south end of No. 2 block was up 9ft, but the stone was very erratic. The battery resumed crushing "on Thursday, and the ore was shaping well on the plates.

MONOWAI. The stope north in the north block, No. 4 level, Monowai mine, Waiomo, was connected with the stope on the main drive last week. Ventilation was satisfactory. The stope over the main drive was showing good ore overhead, but the second stop* south was shewing a poor floor of ore. An assay sample •>" 45 tons of ore crushed at the batten- gave a value of £4 Os 3d ner ton.