MINING NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17475, 20 May 1920, Page 3

MINING NEWS.

HAURAKI

The manager of the Haurski Mines, Corem&ndel, reports that owing to heavy rains and mishaps to the pumping and failing machinery the water was reduced only 20ft last week. It is now 36ft below tho 220 ft lovel. Everything is again working smoothly, and it is expected better progress will to made this week. It was expected that the 300 ft level would have beell reached by this time, but cn account of the amount of !10-~d water to handle since operations commence a progress has been somewhat delayed. During the week men have been cleaning up th*» 220 ft level and laying ft road along the drive on Legge's reef, with tho -view of reaching the poin where the reef was cut of! by the slide. 1 d allow Captain Argil!, to moke an eiftm.ns ion with regard to finding the continuation ■ ■ the lost rich vein. Owing to the state- of '.'.a working!, however, the inspection may io of a cursory. character at first, therefore a more determined one will be undertaken later, not only at this particular point, but as the various workings become drained. It is intended to make surveys of them all. particularly at the lowest level, 400 ft. In the last work carried out by the old company on Lease's reef, at the intersection of the slide with the rest, strong blotches of gold were seen.

NEW REEF AT COROMANDEL IBV TELEGRAPH.—OWN" correspondent.] COROMANDEL..' WednesciT During an examination or a prospectus area ot 100 acres at Ccromandel, latoiv granted to Me3srs. Madill and Ufsher. where a small lode was formerly worked for lean and copper ore, the owners, in company with the director of the Coromandet School of Mines, located a new and apparent:* Extensive ore body, not previously known. JI ? reef is '2ft wide at the surface, ana is exposed for a. distance of over a chain, -• consists of a solid heavy mass ofcow« pyrites, galena and zinc blende, with ®° n . silver. Two men are already engaged in prospecting this lode., wh.cU seemi mnc N parallel to the smaller otia. and mucstronger and more denned.