WAIHI LODES AND ORES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 296, 7 May 1913, Page 2

WAIHI LODES AND ORES.

c -■ ■ ■ ' '■ " ' \'*m"' ' I NEW VALUES IX SIGHT. . . / Auckland, May 4. v Further particulars in regard to the developments on the bottom level of the . Waihi mine (says the Star's correspondn ent) show thai both ■ -ilie Empire and 1 Royal lodes' Jiifyc latter shown much s better values than has been the ease for s many months past.. ~ The most important' development, of ■■ -course,"is ihiit oii'tlie'Fmipire lode going e" west, where"-.'llieV.-' cross-cut, projected e south from the quartz body that the Y drive had been .following, ran into payf able ore after "going through 12 feet of '" country rock. This has proved to be '• from 18 feet to 20 feet wide and worth nearly £3 :p'e'r';idn. ; -'vlt'wduld.'now ap- •' pear that the.Empire lode going down 1_ between the :1000ft. and;! l/50ft levels has changed its underlie, ajwl straightened up considerably, ,arid thai the make of ore now in hand : ■wili''bc found to be continuous both e'asti i(nd west. The intention is to drive .both. .ways. On the Royal, lode west a strong ore body is showing in the drive where' only one wall is exposed, the width of quartz - being about 15ft. This appears to be - similar to a sample a few feet further back, where values were about £2 per •, ton. The'drive is* close to the point 7 where a corresponding run of pay ore i. was met overheadJn. No. 4 shaft. Going t down from Ihe -1 -1 p'Oft or bottom level two new riia)<es of quartz ore are now f- being intersected! " The first one was 5 met with ai a depth of 50 feet, and is about 12 inches-wire, carrying payable ore. The second make is 95 feet down, l but nothing ha's,.yet been done. ,' It is very ,encouraging to find that n ' mineral' ore exjsfcs .'iat this depth below t the present bottom ley el, and, altogether, I the prospects are exceedingly good.,