MINING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 327, 22 December 1888, Page 2

MINING NEWS.

( '«i \Mi*it>v (3 tl I Min i *, X Tu' : —W. o'inn I**,1 **, contra,.'! or for No h diive, on 'riiuivl-iy \\<\, nit the lecf, which is a Hue bo U oFqu.iii'K, All four con 1 racts lIU'IIOW we!) llll'liT Wfi^'il. I* ti lU.'tka Ld. III.: —In the northern poition of this property (fotmerly known :is the Mikado L I.Hil , l«ut subsequently .'cqniri'tl by liuakului syndicate) a diseoveiy of ore, licli in sulphides uf silver, uus made within the past few day.*. The oiaeof thdodohasnotyet been proved, but so far as it, has been opened ,up it looks very proiniMiitj. For several inonlhs past work has boon principally confine! to the Muakaka proper portion of the claim, and has eonsibted of the extension of the low level ni»'l Lhc siiikinir oi* a winze to be connected therewith. It is satisfactory to have to sl:it<» <hnt fa : r silver bearing stone has recently been found at a considerable depth fiom the surface in the low levct referreil to ; thus fallowing that silver betuing ore may be traced to a g;t>t depth. ToAioha S. and G. M. Co., Waioron^oniai: — The various works in connection with the new plant now iv course of erection are progressing satUfaeloiiiy. The llowell revolving 1 furnace is now being elected, and about half of it lias already been put together. Tli'i fourteen concwitra'ors tube worked in connection with the old forty head of stampers wi-re set in motion for a shoit time on Monday last ; and the ninchincry uoiked most satisfactorily. The saw bench has been shifted out of the building 1 , and lv-eieeted undei the old battery hoppers. The new building adjoining the tailings plant has been erected, and the alterations are in progress (lately ruf cried to in th"se columns) in connce tion an itli the White furnace. Work was started on what is known as Goldhwonhy'sreef (old Army ground) on Wedin-s.iay, Avith two shifts. It is Mr llowell's intention to commence to put on additional hands to work the mines after January first. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next, and New Years day will be the Chi istmns holidays obseived generally by the employees of <he company. Karangahake : We are inl'oimcl that Mr .1. M. Chambers has arranged with Mr llowell, of the Te Aroha S. and G. M. Co., for the sale of all the oro bought by him (Mr Chambers) for treatment at the Parkes furnace ; close on 200 tons. The price is to be on a sliding scale, at per ton, according to assay value 5 also for th sale of the Ln Monte water jacket smeller and other pl.-.nt, and likewise th 1 slag and fluxes at Karangahake (in connection with the Parkes furnace) for remuval to the Co'a works at Waiorongon.V. Can lci bury Syndicate: Mr J. Me Combie who has had the management for the Canterbury Syndicate since they commenced operations, h is now in course of construction a machine house, ihe site being adjacent to the IvMihoe batteiy. Mr Haitian, Ihe contractor for t'.ie erection of this building, is well for ward with the wotk. The plant to be erected will consist of four oidinnry stampers, and the two puns and one settler erected some little time back at Waito), which will shortly be removed to Kaianyahake. A new and novel feature will be introduce 1 in connection vuth this plant, viz., a Californian pump will be erected. The water made use of in crushing by the stampers will afterwards pass through two settling pits, then through a third pit, nnd from this third pit will be raised by means of the Californian pump, and be used over and over again, the same water in fact will be continually describing a circuit as it were ; the object aimed at being to prerent float loss of gold, which is known to be very great in ordinary stamper batteries, varying, some assert, from 15 io 40 per oent of assay value. It remains to bo •een whether this proposed method of working will answer or not. The Parkes furnace is advertised as holnrr fm* cali»