MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS.
Four-in-Hand. —Stoping is still in progress on the Cuirassier reef above No. 1 level. The lode is still carrying a horse of mullock •with a hanging-wall rib of quartz 3in. wide, and a foot-wall rib Sin. in •width. The reef is more consolidated with well defined walls, although the ore is still low grade. The main aerial rope-way is working well and we have had no trouble with it since starting: practically all the ore from the Cuirassier section of the mine has now been sent down. Good progress is being made with the erection of the Tainui aerial ropeway. Crushing 1 operations were started on Monday. Zeehan.—The contractors havo advanced the Paroquet crosscut Bft. in good country. New reef: sft. was driven, but no quartz broken. No. 3 branch was advanced Gft. The country is hard; '3ft. of quartz was broken, carrying good v silver sulphides. No. 3 South: No work was done. Zeehan Reef South: Air and water pipes are now fixed and rock drilling will commence next week. The magazine is completed. . The Thames School of Mines experiments are progressing. Zeehan ore has been put through a 30 and aGO mesh screen. Oil flotation tests and grading tests have yet to be made.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18889, 11 December 1924, Page 7
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