MINING NOTES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 41, 24 September 1892, Page 7

MINING NOTES.

"VJTAITEKAURI. [PBOM, OtZROWN CORRESPONDENT."] . Affairs jn. the-K'omata Gold Mining CJompany aregoingon very satisfactorily, the tramway is* working well—Messrs : and ..Baker being able-to «end down ore,, enough' to keep 22 head of stamps going. -.The ore is rich in gold and silver. „ The treatment in the pans Slaves a high percentage of, the gold, but ;a good deal of the silver escapes To secure this Mr Russell has had a large building, erected rfor blanket tables: as ■the ore is-run from the pans (after the most ofjthe gold has beeu secured), it is raised by,-,*a> new elevator —something like a water-wheel 'reversed—on to the blanket-streaks. ■ This is a new experiment, and likely to prove a great success, as the blanket washings are ' Tiqh in silver. This-will probably be -treated bjrrtherßohnr process.. After, over the blankets it is run into a large pit to settle/the ,water going away quite clean, so that very little of ■the golJand silver is allowed to escape "The tailings will be treated at soire future time if, there is enough in them -to pay. ''This is a very complete plant, =and the mine one of the best in New Zealand. Mr ,Rus=ell is likely to make a big pot of money out of it, and he urichly deserves all he gets, ' - ' •_• ' The roads are in a deplorable state, and I think' our County Council would •do well to' take steps to obtain a loan, ■SO as to enable them to improve matters in this inspect; if once the roads w«re metal led,'the cost of maintenance would be~ small, Whereas anything that iis being ( done .now is, to, say the least, not of a permanent natnre.

Mr HI" W^^Mbore,..; late-^f^tlie. Thames,' 1 har" been ° pftfced''"' in- temporary change ..of Mr T- ( H. EasseH's mining "pro|>ertieß at I^aitekaiui:i and Komata. " rUpfe;ratiQrjß;.at? the present time, however, are chiefly concentratecl in and abouj ? the^.Te Ao, Marama, property at^^oraiala^ejbe '-beihgr, -.32', "men way,Qnaip[ at^thjebatteryy s , ,, At.tneJatter, works li^heaa'or,stampers' arp,'at'wd.rk'' .quartz^broaghß. .in,,. s frpna..) i .the. mine, but yer^-!j,|Vile/,can je^bV said

regarding how the quartz is shaping, as there has not yet been a cleaning up, there will not be any until the end of the month. The machinery at the battery, however, ib working very smoothly, whilst the new tramway between the battery andthe mine, which is 3f miles in length,-is acting very satisfactorily. , *♦* ' ' An extremely rich gold deposit has been'discovered a hundred miles from tKe Southern Cross reef, in Western Anstralia. Nearly 3000ozs Alluvial gold have already been obtained. v .. ■ * Arrangements have just been comI pleted by Mr H. ~H.~ Adams for 'the utilisation of Cassell's process of quartz ' reduction at his battery, Waiorongomai. On Monday a commencement was made 1 to effect the necessary alterations at the battery, with a view to erecting 20 head of stampers.