MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16672, 17 October 1917, Page 5

MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS.

< I Golden Belt: Sulphide ore has been Men in the south face of N0..l level the washings from the oxidised portion of the reef Bhow ; small dish prospects. of cold have been : Waiotahi: Good dabs of cold have been , seen in the small leader below the surface • level, and a few pounds of pickod stone have 1 Sylvutße e e d f's. Ltd.: The .reef north of the main crosscut is well mineralised. The reef in the south end has, been advanced sft, , and good mineral is showing. / Kuranui: A further 10ft lias btfln driven , on Ross's reef, the country heme highly 1 mineralised. , Tairua Broken Hills: Silica veins are in evidonce in No. 5 stopu, and fair dish' prospects tiro obtained. , £0. 1 stope, going 1 south, still carries a fair percentage of blue 1 su'nllide. . . _, '~ , , ] tit_:i.: -r.t„„/I n ,l. flia enn*h ftnri BSRt .?rnss-

Waihi Extended: The south and east cross-1 cuts in No. 7 level have been advanced. Ihe rock in both faces is solid dacite, being somewhat hard to break. ... . Occidental Conso'idated: . Several dabs of gold have been seen in the ore broken from the reef in the intermediate drive in the north,end. Seventy loads of general ore which have been sent to the battery promise to give a fair return.