MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18456, 18 January 1922, Page 7

MINING.

The following information has "been cabled to the head office of the Waahi Gold Mining; Company, Loudon;—No. 11 level; the Salmon north-west crosscut from'the Edward lode oxidised country waa met at 187 ft. At S3(!tt la, mixture of quartz end country ‘ 4ft wide is worth Us a ton. The course is 32deg true. At 219 ft a mixture Ift wide ' is worth 66s a ton. The course is 29 deg. At 255 ft quartz 2ft wide is worth Gs 8d a ton. The course is 40deg, and all the lodes are dipping west. No. 12 level; The Martha lode, from 105 ft to lllit east of the Bath crosscut is worth 24s 3d a ton. The north J j‘ wall is to hand. On the south section of the Empire lode w© have driven from Sssft to 590 ft. The value of the or© is 8s a ton, the reef being wider than the drive, ~ MOUNT LYELL PROGRESS REPORT.. The following is the progress report- fbr • the fortnight ended December 28-' of the'ty.'i .Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company :i- *' Mount Xiyell Mine.—No. g level: Ropeway.,. J

rise was completed at lift in echist. v .. North Mount Lyell Mine.—7ooft level;' ■; 15 rise to 2£t is in schist. ‘ Reduction Works.—One furnace woe in ~ blast up to December 24, when it was down for repair© to chimney stack. ; OdA'"' thousand seven hundred and eixty-five tons- . of blister copper were consigned 1 td'tWV. 1 refinery for the current year. Concentrator.—The picking plant 65 hours and put. through 2079 tons .JOf’.i- '• North Lyell ore. Three hundred and fortyuv? tons of sorted ore were sent to the ■ furnaces,and 1546 tons of reject ore and fines to .the-, . mill. The mill operated for 218 i hours, -- - and treated 2630 tons of ore, producing 180 : tons of jig oon centra tea and 863 tons of liC i flotation concentrates. i f