THE WEEK'S MINING NEWS

Otago Witness, Issue 2167, 5 September 1895, Page 15

THE WEEK'S MINING NEWS

The gold field revenue collected by the Warden's Court at; P«ero& from applicant* for lands taken for mining purposes in the Ohmemuri district «nee the oommencemett of the present year totals £8*22. At a meeting at Auckland on Thuraday 14-0 names were received for membership of the Chamber of Mines. The atticlts of association ■were adopted, and Mr Sejmour George w*s elee'ed president.

We If arn from the Bruce Herald that mining operations at Glenore will shortly be considerably extended. Messrs Nelson and party's dredge v still busy winning the precious mew from the bed of the creek, and now we hear that another dredge is about to be erected by a new company. The promoters number eiehr, three b*mg residents of Glenore and five of Roxburgh, with Mr G. Telford of Roxburgh, as manager. A large Quantity of timber is already on tbe ground, and building operations will be commenced next month, lhe company have secured a large tract of land on both sides of tbe river, and expect to hecure good results, and altogether the future of the mining industry at Glenore seems as ured.

According to the Cromwell Argus it is likely to be some little time before the work in the Cromwell mine will be started by the new company, lhe old shareholders here only received notification of the reconstruction scheme last week, and their acceptance of terms offered mv t, we premme, go Home before the new company is finally constituted. The Tuapeka Times s»ys:-"Tbe party of Chinese who had succeeded in turning tbe Clutha river at a point about three miles above the Beaumont brid.e have fared do better thau on two or three previous occasions. Just as they had successfully completed their preparations for setting in to work on the exposed bottom of the river, the remorseless waters rose, swept down with resutless force, and overleapt or swept away the training walls and other works of a defensive nature constructed with such patient a»d untiring labour by the industrious Mongols. The same thing happened twice previously, and yet the Chinamen have not despaired of carrying off the treasure eventually. Ihey intend taking the job in hand again next winter, being satisfied from

the prospects obtained tbftt they are sure of a good thing if only they cau manage to keep the river at, bay for a short time."

Tbe Louden board of directors of the B'ue Spur Consolidated Company have granted a Lou"s of £100 to Mr J. H. Jackton in leccgnilion of lm services a* niiae manager during the past year. — Tuap-.'k* Times. The ambition of th» Witwatererand (South Africa) miner* to prodnc* 200,000 >z of gold in one month wu realised in June la-it to the jubilation of the field, the exact figures being 2"0.9410z. The development of the Rand mines has b en remarkably rapid. Three yeats ago <o tbe very month the IOO.OOOjz was overtopped for the fir* t time. The number of tons put through the mills last June totalled 290,003, tH* average yield bein? 9dwt per to*, as agaiaet 158,351 too* milled in June 1892, for au average yield of 9P2dwt. But the most remarkable advance of all has betn in the manipulation of the tailings and tbe extract ion of eol4 therefrtm. The yield from tbis source in June 18*2 wh 15,7220z. With the help of cyanide — ftiiJ there is no coantry in the world where the application of thp process has been attended with such iwinedinte and magnifioent results— the Rand minio'g comi>am"es w«ire enabled to tave in June of 1895 84,4<60z of gold. What the pontion of the industry would bave been to-day without th?s aid th^se liguros p'ainly tell. A trial cmsning of a'out three tons of stone from the neighbourhood of Dun^sck was made on Saturday morning, but the result is not yet kno«n.

A Perth Men-am stales that Giles's prospecting party have diVo* ered an extens vc ret-f tit Mount Margaret The stone carries coarse and flu* gold all through.

The secretary of th« Dunedin Gold Dredging Company (Limited) has received the following telegram from the dredgenaaster :— "Started d rearing this morning, and washed up for 20oz gold." Mr Thomas Calender reports s*3oz ldvrt lOgr re 1 orted g'dd from the Sew Hoy Big Beach Gold Mining Company (Limited). 'His Upper Waipori Alluvial Gold Dredging Company (Limited) obtained from No. 1 dredge 15oz 24wt (Igr of gold for 137 hours' dredging last week.

Tbe Jutland Flat (Waipori) Gold Mining Company (Limited) obtained 21oz 6dwt of gold for i4t hours' wages time, 13* i hours' actual dredging last week.

An Aucklasd telegram states that the May Queen yield is 76 oz from 800 loads, valued at £'2070. Tnis is an increase on the previous month's value 'of £1616.