Mining in Otago.

Otago Witness, Issue 1671, 1 December 1883, Page 12

Mining in Otago.

Mr W. L. Davis, manager of the Invincible Company's mine, Head of Lake, brought down on Saturday a cake of 118oz of gold, the product of about 600 tons of stone taken from various parts of the mine. The Oompaoy are busy crushing, and there a- c fair prospects of a good cake at Christmas.— Wakatipu Mail.

Nothing of any particular note has transpired during the past week at the reefs on the Old Man Range. Most of the claims have now mm at work, whilst the prospects iv the claims already opened out are not iv the lea&t lessened. Shares are being bought in mauy of the claims, and in the course of a few weeks something definite as the value of the discovery may be expected to be leavnt.— Dunstan Times A correspondent of the Mount Ida Chronicle at the Serpentine denies that things there in regard to iha leefa are so bad as was reponed in that journal. The Golden Link Company (in liquidation) have two teams at work carting quartz to the.battery, which is now in the charge of Air Glass. Tnere are about 7') tons to cru.'h. Mr Sturm will shortly finish his -contract for driving a tunnel for the Deep Valley Company. He has lately struck the reef, .but it is m.t payable as yet. When he finishes he will be at lea t lOOfb beyond where , he got the shoot of gold on the surf ice. ' In mining news there is this week (says the Cromwoll Argus) but one lttm worthy of chronkle. Some new ground has lately been opened up at the head of the JiU"Kate Creek, Mount Pisa, which promi-es very favomaUly, and to whioh a rush on a small scale has already feut in. Just before winter a party who had been prospecting came on some firbt-class sluicing"■rouiid, and at once applied for a claim, water-rac«, &c * but boinjr high up on the range, as soon as the uno\v cam* on they were driven ouo. When the i now hid sufficiently cleared ofi they resumed work, and we heir r.nry a:o exceedingly well satisfied with their pvct ent prospects. Several parties have since taken up claims in the same neishbouihood, and no doub., during tho summer a good extent of ground will be opened up, as tho country hns been known for some time to be more t>r lctß auriferous ; but being at a "reat altitude, it has becu but lately prospected, and • iS ca.'i only bo worked about fc\ eu or eight months of the year. Should the workings prove permaneni, the \icinity will afford scope for a good. number of iep-1, Uw country hitherto being untouched by the gold-Beekcr."