Notes from Lyell. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
• v LYELL, June 22. The Mine Manager of the Alpine mfhe re« ports as follows: — The contractors completed their contract of 200 ft of driving in No. 7 level on Monday last. There are now lOin jf stone in the face. Since the completion of the contract a rise has been started 40ft back from the face, and put up for a height of 12ft. Ai first the 20 bodies of stone passed through in the level were carried up, but there is in ''the roof of the rise at present only the hanging wall stone, about 2ft wide. Another rise has also been started on a crosscivt farther to the south, and a distance of 7ft has been risen. A good reef track is being carried up, and there are indications that some stone may live in the hanging wall of the rise. In the winze below No. 11 level a small cut was put in to the south, and developed a body of stone dipping north into the winze, but when sinking was resumed it did not prove to be of any size. In the bottom of the winch at present there is a formation of broken quartz and pu».
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Otago Witness, Issue 2416, 28 June 1900, Page 19
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