MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17174, 29 November 1917, Page 7

MINING.

The Rise and Shino No. 1 dredge had steady run last week, and continued to ap&fagM out to the west, but the cuf cannot be ex§&p§jj tended as tar as is desirable, because of desire to keep the tailings dear of the joining claim of the- Rising Sun The No. 2 dredge had a new part tho screen and other repairs effected the end of the we£k. There was up The ground was poor end stony, it has been decided to pull ahead about!MfiSm a dredge length, and open out there, tho ground give payable prospects. n 'jaHRH Mr G A Hutchmson, representative 1 the Bucyrua Company South, Milwau&eeJ* ,, USA, at present in Sydney, states ttiis%ma his firm, has under consideration a moth 500-ton gold dredge for the Lenaliip,! Goldfields (Siberia). The cost will be?iaJlii the neighbourhood of £100,000. With fy*Jir i i world at war there are very few builders anywhere who can manage the necessary plates for -a steed any price -w % l'»l^i The Serbian copper manes are now intensively exploited by the Germans *ns'* Austrians, aad good copper deposits are<»feowml| said to have been found m Poland. Wo<ire|M has recently begun in the lead and J deposits in the district of KJelce, ana tho meighbourhood of Miedzkama, Gora, end Ollcuss the tion of these ores has already been stariedMj|p The existence of copper in this district long been knownv but nnder Rusemn the deposits were neglected, as {be Mtbatv tie devoted all their attention to the ploitation of the mines in tbo Unde.*— monger i *% r ®ja The gold yield «£ Victoria for OotobaHttSK was 15,4840z gross, or 14,5180z fine, at £61,701. This shows a <leqiea» 46480z fine as compared with the yiekl -fo«ti!v| October of last year. The return, past 30 months was 383,5460z grou, 170,5900z fine, valued at £713,268. 'Obmj /g pared with the quantity won during corresponding period of last l year, A tleiffig-rf crease of 41,1560z fine has oooerred. '*, ir T* i %ra The gold yield of New South Wiles ifoje "f*M October was 113680z crnd*. equal $&;¥& 11,0900z fine, vaioed at £44,K>7, pared with 80740z crude, or 75660z valued at £32,139, for October 1916 total for 10 months has been 74,1130z or 70,9100z fine, valued at &501304, as oonvTyf pared with 91,8670z crude, or 74,6726*, valued at £317,189, for the portion of last year. i VSM