MINING NEWS
Tui.—The mine manager reports: Work has been continued in the rise on No. 3 reef. The reef maintains its size and is still carrying nice minerals, but the country rock encasing the reef is too hard for making values. A start has been made with the rising on the No. 2 reef close to the flatsheet to pick up the junction ofvthe small leader that is showing in the crosscut and No. 2 leef.
[ Moanataiari.—The mine manager reJ ports: The only work done last week at the bottom of the shaft was crosscutting through the No. 1 reef north of the shaft. We are going through at a fairly long angle to keep the shaft intact. The reef is a very strong body of ere carrying zinc blende and a fair amount of iron pyrites. We have not yet reached the hanging-wall, and we have Bft of quartz on one side of the , drive and sft on the other,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 11
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