MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19350, 10 December 1924, Page 9

MINING.

WAIHI GOLD MINING COMPANY. - J For the period ended November S 3, '1 seating 21 crushing daye, 17,217. tone «'«>»> were crushed at the Waihi Gold Mining Company’s mine for a return of 660 hno . ounces of gold and 38,262 fine ounces of silver (says the New Zealand Herald). Pn - ,jj the corresponding period of list yea* X6,S3S tone yielded 6462 ounces of gold and 48,wu ounces of silver. . The following information has beep .cabled to the head office of the company in Lon* : don:—No. 7 level, Surprise lode: At 210 it north-west of No; 2 shaft, wo have driven ' to the west 68ft, and to the east 67ft. The ,i average width of the lode ie 25ft. At No. :j 6 level the length of payable ore is Tuft, r and the average width of the reef 17ft. Th* i average value over both of these levels -ajAi.r i 69a per ton. At No. 8 level tbs vain*; its t:. unpayable. No. 11 level, Edward . hide-• Driving south, the next 21ft from 75? ft ■to 773 ft assays 6s fid per ton. The lode about Bft wide. No. 12 lewd, Martha, lode;. , 3 Driving south-west of the crosaoutt, at AOOit . the next 45ft assays 66s 6d per ton. The, jj walla are not defined. No. 18 level, Edwsitd * lode; On the east section of lode the-cross-cut is being continued. The next 10ft assays 2s per ton. No, 14 level; north, eecisoh pf Martha lode: East of No. 4 ehaft crossed* ; the next 41ft from 196 ft to 237tt -I per ton. The formstion is a mixture _of , quartz and country. On the south section, " driving west, the asst 101 ft. from 124ft'tef 225 ft assays 4e 8d per ton. . ; - MB^hll l A l ,.'hTggissßg . / S':