MINING.
The Rise and Shine dredge had * steady run last week, and got over a fair area of , ground, which waa easier to work than usual. Bottom of soft red clay was got, at an Mivbxage depth of about 42ft. MOUNT LYELL ' i Progress report for the' fortnight ended. July 27 ; Mount Lyell Mine.—Breaking pyrites in progress. No. 5 level, cutting plat and winch. ' chamber at engine winze, and! raising shaft for poppet head. No. 8 level, enginfe- winze rise lifted to 185 ft in chloritic schist. North Mount Lyell Mine.—Ore breaking is in progress. 700 ft level, No. 11 winze to 6ft in fair grad© bornite or©. n r , „V. Reduction Works; —1.90 furnaces in. blast ' during fortnight; 4509 tons of blister copra consigned to the refinery for the current, yfifev Concentrator. —The picking plant operated 90.6 hours and pht through 2826 ipn© of ; North Lyell or©. Seven hundred tons' of ■ sorted or© consigned to furnaces, sawat&3 : tons reject ore and fines sent to .mill. The ' mill operated 241 hours and treated 2624 tons of ore, producing 367 tons of jig concentrates and 300 tons of flotation concentrates.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18321, 11 August 1921, Page 7
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189MINING. Otago Daily Times, Issue 18321, 11 August 1921, Page 7
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