MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16889, 29 December 1916, Page 6

MINING.

, , ». Reporting Tinder date Docomljor 6, the manager of the Mount Lyell Company stated: —No. 9 level: North drive completed at ls3ft; progress through pyrites. North stopo drive to 88ft, through pyrites. North Mount Lyell: 1000 ft lovel Grown drive to 160 ft, through chloritic schist, 1100 ft level, north-east drive, to 121 ft, through hematite schist and pyrites; north drive to 64ft, through mineralised echist. 1200 ft level: No. 2 north drive to 243 ft, through mineralised schist. No. 295 diamond drill bore to 256 ft. Reduction works: 2.63 furnaces in blast daring fortnight. During current half-year 1000 tons blister consigned to electrolytic v/orks, Port Kenibla, for refining. On December 11 the manager of the Dreadnought Boulder mine at Zeehan reported that the No. 2 tunnel on the Cable lodo had penetrated the lode 2ft, and that tho panning- prospects had yielded 1 per cent, tin, the ore beincr of a friaMe nature, easy to mine and mil!. The tunnel intersected the lode at the point where it was expected it would, siticl which corresponds with the din and strike of the lode cut in No. 1 tunnel, lOOft above No. 2. The total backs available from No. 2 tunnel to the surfaco is 170 ft. The development is important, and shoulel be gratifying to the management and shareholders, as it is « further sten towards proving a large block of stanniferous ground in ';loso proximity to tho mill. It will be remembered that *n recent reports it was stated that in driving. No. 1 tunnel along- the ore body the lode had widened out, and only one wall was followed. The exploratory work of No. 2 tunnel will bo watched with interest, and should results warrant it a third tunnel will be sent in from the level of the hopper at the battery.

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