KARANGAHAKE.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 3

KARANGAHAKE.

Woodstock. — At a meeting of directorsin the Woodstock srarlting company held in Auckland on Friday, 27th ult., it was decided to discontinue smelting 1 operations at present, and the furnace hands were all paid off at Karangabake on Saturday last. In the meantime work in the mine will be carried on as usual, so as to keep the Ivanhoe battery fully employed in the reduction of second class quartz, which is shaping for a l-eturn of about one ounce of bullion per ton, and all the tailings are being saved for subsequent treatment. The stone is being classed as it is being broken out, No. 1 being reserved for smelting. This work will be continued for a month, at the end of which time a general cleaning up will take place, and future operations will depend upon the results obtained therefrom. Monastery. — Good headway is being made in driving the low level tunnel, which is now fast approaching the point where the reef should be met with. Last week the proprietors forwarded to Auckland a parcel of 1 ton of quartz, which is to bu sent on to Prieburg for treatment. Should this trial lot prove to be remunerative, large shipments will follow in due course. Adeline. — The stopes are looking and yielding well, and from here there are now to hand about 30 tons of quartz which will be sent to the Ivanhoe Battery for treatment early next week. A start has also been made to drive a new level, so as to intersect No. 2 lode at a considerable depth beneath the surface ; j and the manage 1 * expeccs to have it in hand in a fe.r feet more driving. | Crown. — Stopiny; out on the No. 2 lode is now fairly underway, and stone showing gold is being secured at every breaking down of quartz. Diamond. — A crushing of 20 tons of quartz, broken out from different parts of the mine, has been sent to the Ivanhoe Battery to be dealt with next week ; and the manager expects a handsome return. | New Quartz Reduction Works. — Daring the past ten days the weather has been anything but favourable for outdoor work, and consequently but little headway has been made with the work of completing the dam and fluming, In the mill-house the whole of the machinery is now in position, and the tanks, 12 in number, for holding the crushed ore, ate fast approaching completion,