GOLDMINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 6

GOLDMINING

AUCKLAND MINES. SPECIAL TO THE "tEMES." ' AUCKLAND, July 28. SAXON. The manager of tho Saxon mine forwarded to tho office of Ui© company to-day a few pounds of Ktone' broken from ' the 15-inch, roof at 1003 ft. Tho quartz is of a really good type, carrying excellent minerals, as well as. showing strong colours of coarse gold. TALISMAN CONSOLIDATED, LTD. The report for the fortnight ending Jane 3i«i, 1911, states; No, 11' level, —The values from the slopes off No. 12 rise average £1 8s 4d. These slopes are now worked oat. No. 12 level. —The north drive off east crosscut is along 47ft, width of reef 42iu, values low. South drive off east cros-eut is in 43ft, width of reef 54in, values average £1 8s Id No. 13.—Winze advanced lift, total 22ft, width of reef 941 n, values low. No, 16.—A winze was started In the main south drive at a point iOlt in, width of reef 30iu, values low. This winze is being sunk to expedite a connection with a nsc about to he started from the south drive. No. 13 level sloping.—The values from No. 3, north block, slopes average £2 19s 2d East veins slopes average £3 6s 3d. Tho south drive is in 1487 ft, w-idth of reef 72in, values average £1 l£s 13d. No. 12 winze.—The south drive is along 176 ft, width of reef 72in, values average £5 10s 2d. Tho nortn drive is in 163 ft, width of reef 48in, values average £4 3s 7d. Sloping.—Tho values from tho slopes off No. 6 rise average £1 10a Bd, off No. 12 rise average £lO 3s lid, and off No. 15 rise average £2 12s 7d. WAJ3II GEAND JUNCTION. The report of work done during the fourweekly period ending June 17th, 1911, , states; No.. 3 shaft has been sunk lift, but further sinking will have to wait now for completion of winding plant and poppet Loads. The foundations for the winding engino and capstan arc completed. No. 3 lov'd. —Tho 31 ary lode; East drive is along 302 ft at 330 ft oast. East lode: The lode narrowed to 24-inches. At this point a crosscut was put in lift on the hanging wall side, and 'disclosed 60 inches of soUd eoantry, and then 72 inches of quartz. It was found that the main lode had split at 277ft‘. cast. The drive has been opened, out at this point, and now driving is proceeding on the hanging wall branch, which, is 47 inches wide. Tho hanging wall drive is along 277 ft. Three hundred and ninety-five tons of low grade ore came from the above work, and went to the milL In No. 4 level, on the Mary lode, the drive east is in 409 ft. The reef has been extremely irregular in width, and the average width and assay for the driving done were 67 inches, worth £1 7a JOd. A 13it crosscut at 370 ft east proved the width of the lode at this point to be 126 inches, worth £1 2a Bd. No. 5 level, Mary lode.—No. 3 rise is up 97ft, productSg 60 tons of low grade ore. The reef fs wider than the rise, no wall having been exposed. No. 4 lode (Empire).—At the 930 ft rive there are 76 inches of oro worth £3 3 s. The crosscut at 30ft up, put in 10ft, shows bo far the lode to be 10ft wide at 461 ft. The lode in the 9£Gft crosscut, south of the Empire, is 43 inches wide, worth 10s 3d,, and dips flatly to the south-east. The George lode in the oast drive is only 12 inches wide in tho wc(st drive. Forty-one inches- -of tho reef assayed £2 13a lid.