MINING NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 7

MINING NEWS.

REPORTS OF MANAGERS. Now Waiotahi.—The drive toward tho Calodonian reef has been advanced lift, for the week, making the total distance from the starting point 197 ft., leaving 25ft. to reach the boundary. The country rock Is carrying fine-grained mineral seams, favourable for gold. Moanataiari.—The crosscut into the footwall is now out 21ft, in splendid country. On Thursday in the old leading stope in the tunnd level a fall of rock occurred and showed up. a leader in the hanging-wall which had not Leei: worked. We secured a fctv colours and later secured a couple of pounds of very good picked stone, It requires tinibeiing before any more work can bo done on it. Since then we havo secured a further couple of pounds of good picked stone (showing very coarse gold) from the leader mentioned, which, I think, has nor been seen previously. Further development will havo to bo done to prove this. 1 he. tributers'started crushing last Tuesday with one shift. On Thursday Inst two shuts were put on. but on account of shortage of water we could run only one shift on Friday and Saturday. This week we will have enough water ic run two shifts, so the turncock informs me, and the tributes* are prepared to work same. They have not yet had a cloat.-up. , Albumin.—During this week stoning has been continued on rile hftifcillg-vall branch of the Orlando reef. The stope is now up to a height' of lift, over the back of the level, and the reef at the, back of the stone shows a width of Bft. This reef is "a welldefined body of ore. At first gold was seen only on the hanging-wall portion, but at the last breaking-down gold was seen also in the centre of the reef and on the footwall. A fair quantity of the stone broken shows colours and dabs of gold, and during the week we selected o little stone which is fairly rich. The country rock encasing tho reef is of a splendid description, being interlaced with a fair number of mineral seams, and the general prospects hero ai® most hopeful for meeting with rich values.