MINING NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21925, 8 October 1934, Page 5

MINING NEWS

YIELDS OF COMPANIES Snowy River (West Coast). —6oz. 14dwt. for 122 hours. Otago Seheelite. —From treatment of 180 tons of ore, five tons of seheelite and 14oz. 14dwt. retorted gold. Stafford Sluicing (Wesit Coast).— 18oz. sdwfc. for 21 shifts. Heavy boulders have delayed progress. Glenroy (Murchison). —250z. from second preliminary wash-up. Mahaklpawa (Marlborough). Last week, 330z. Brian Boru (near Greymouth).—Last week, 18oz. 6dwt. for 113 hours. Golden Sands (near Greymouth).—• 320z. for 33 shifts of eight hours. Bell-Hooper (Cromwell). —Last week, 23055. 17dwt. Charleston (BuIIer). —19oz:. 15dwt. for 23 x shifts during the past fortnight. SKIPPERS* PROGRESS Skippers, Limited (Shotover), reports that sluicing operations may be expected to commence within a week. At the end of last month everything was ready for paddock work on the 10-acre beach, there remaining only two djiys' pile-driving in order to divert the river completely into the Jluming. Weather conditions had been unsatisfactory, with heavy flooding, but there had been no damage to the plant. The fluming was brought into servico on September 14. HARAKEKE MINES Harakeke Mines, Limited, with a' capital of £IO,OOO has been formed to work a reef system 20 miles north of Coromandel. A large amount of driving has been done and a largo tonnage of ore is ready to bo taken out for tho battery, which tho company intends to purchase. In the meantime test crushiugs will be taken to a near by battery. REPORTS OF MANAGERS Mahakipawa (Marlborough). Thai leading face has bean advanced 13ft. in good grade wash. There isi an average of 3ft. of bottom showing in the face. A blocking strip has been started from tho crosscut west, 50ft. behind the leading face, B,nd hqs been taken out for 6ft. in good grade wash, with 2ft. of bottom above rail level. The prospecting drive has gone ahead a further 23ft. At 6ft. back from tho present faco the bottom :fell very sharply, coming down from tho back of the drive to tho floor in about 6ft. We are now approaching No. 2 shaft, and the wash has become sandy and wet. As this drive has been rising: slightly all the way, and as the bottom has gone clown on an agio of approximately 45 degrees, it would appear that the Alice Fell shaft was sunk on an entirely different gutter from the one wo have been following for years. Verification will very soon be obtained when we hole through to the No. 2 shaft. A further prospecting drive lias been started in an easterly direction from tho place where tho very good returns were obtained,, early in the year. This will test an area to tho east of our workings which has not yet been prospected. No. 2 shaft is now timbered down to 94ft. and has been cleaned out for another 7ft. The wash is composed of large boulders, some of them quartz, and this is slowing up the work to a certain extent. The Government geophysical party is undertaking a seismic survey, and it is hoped that tho results of this will lessen considerably the difficulty of following the lead.