MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15857, 1 September 1913, Page 6

MINING.

The manager of tho Saxon mino reports that since passing through the reef very hard, country had again been mot with. He thinks this hard ground will .be of short duration, and that good country will again be met with after a few moro feet ol driving. ■ , Stoping was in hand over the drive, main level, Hauraki llcefs, Coromandel, last week, and tho reef continued to givo encouraging results. 'In the drive, main level, a fine-looking reef was allowing, and strong gold was seen in the quartz broken out. Above tho old No; 2 level, west workings, two stopes wore'in progress over the drive, and a fair'amount of gold was seen in the quartz saved for treatment;, Good payable crushing dirt, from whicli a little picked stone was saved, was still being ob- , tained in tho'face of the drive going west. Work in-the stopes on No. 2 reef, OcciI dental Consolidated mine, Thames, has been carried on as usual. Very little change was met with. Tho reef in the top stopc lookod a little better than it did the •previous week. A little gold oontinued to bo seen in the ore broken from the south etope. Owing to the' breakdown of the oil engine, and the consequent inability to provide ventilation, no work was dons in tho rise. The work of preparing tho chamber for tho shaft and machinery at No.' 4 level was being proceeded with, DREDGING RETURNS. Oz. dwt. gr. Rising Sun, Cromwell, 130hrs 29 0 0 Manuherikia, Alexandra, wk... 20 0 0 Rise and Shine, Cromwell, 138hrs ... 19 3 0 Olrig, Manuherikia, wk ... 11 2 0 1 Total :.. 19 5 0 The West Coabt. Success. llOhrs • ... 44 10 0 AUCKLAND GOLD RETURNS. (I'm United i'rksb Association./ AUCKLAND, August 31. ' Tho gold roturris for the month of August show that the output for the Auckland district totalled £77,161 5s Bd, as compared with £76,038 lis for July. I'or August last year the returns totalled £38,379 7s 7d, For. the first seven months of the year tho total is £516,315 93 2d, an increase of £10,660 2s 9d over tho figures for the same period last year, TIIE WEST COAST. • (Fbou ODH OWN CoftßKsroNDm.i GREYMOUTH, August 31. Interest is still centred in tile Greenstone rush, , and shares are changing hands at fair prices. l'he rush has revived the opinion- that a large tract of rich gold-bear-ing country exists between Maori' Point and the Tereniakau. It has always been contended that the Three-mile locality is auriferous, and now that .attention is directed to the locality pribably. something will bo done to prove if gold (iocs exist' there.