EXPLORATION FOR GOLD

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1933, Page 9

EXPLORATION FOR GOLD

WAIHI COMPANY EXPERIMENT CONTRARY DIP ENCOUNTERED. CHARACTERISTIC ROCK FOUND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Waihi, Last Night. Exploratory work being conducted by the Waihi Gold-mining Company on the company’s original holding and in the Grand Junction area was explained by the superintendent (Mr. H. W. Hopkins) and the mine manager (Mr. J. L. Gilmour) in an interview to-day with the Press Association. Referring to the first testing of a portion of the junction area in virgin country, they stated that at random in No. 6 level, which ■ corresponded s to the eleventh level in the Waihi mine, a prospecting cross-cut was being thrown out for the purpose of testing the ground on the line of the Royal lode east of the main fault. , The reef originally cut by the Grand Junction Company, east of the fault and on the course of the Royal lode, had a southerly dip, whereas the Royal previously worked had always had a northerly dip, that being consistently characteristic of the lie of the Royal. There was room for doubt whether the quartz cut by the Junction Company was really that of the one body. The first objective of the cross-cut was to find the Royal with a northerly dip. About 2000 feet remained’ to be driven before the Junction boundary was reached. The rock so far encountered was characteristic of the gold-bearing reef in the Waihi mine. As a result of recent developments on the north branch of the Martha reef, west of No. 2 shaft, the company had decided to test further the parent lode in the western part of the property by driving along the course of the lode at No. 5, level for 800 feet.' For a final test of the parent body cross-cuts would be projected north of the lode at points which seemed, as the driving progressed, to present favourable indications.