MINING MATTERS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2170, 11 October 1875, Page 3

MINING MATTERS.

! Moanataiaei.—The usual fortmghll] retorting for tlie Moanataiari Oompan] took place on Saturday. Tho quantity o stuff treated during the fortnight wa: rather less . than usual, but the resul shows an improvement iu the quality o the crushing stuff, although it has not me sxpectations. ,Thp quantity crushed wai 585 tons, and the yield is 1770zs 16dwti retorted gold. South Devon Tbibute.-A parcel o ] tons, crushed for, those tributers at thi Bedford battery, produced 9ozs 16dwts o r o ld, or an average of nearly ljoz to the ton hie return is very satisfactory,: for th< ode which produced it is of good size anc msily worked, and an average of till! lass will leave handsomo profits fron uture erushings. ' Queen. of Beauty.—lt will be recol ected that some time : ago the share iblders of the Queen of Beauty took ad. 'antage of the fact that one of. their num ier, Mr John McCabe, was about to visi Australia, to forward a parcel of golc half the proceeds of one fortnight i rushing), to the Miut.. Tho fact wa: hey were led to believe that they won tot receiving full value for their gold, ir lonsequence of the coalition between th( lanking establishments here. Mr Mc Jabe informs us that the profit which.lit lerived by dealing direct with the Mini m 6|d per ounce. This is less than wai ixpeoted certainly, but, it' would hav( >een greater 1 had the parcel beenovei ~oooozs, for the Mint charges'woulc lot then have been so high- ii iroportion. The past week 3 crush ng : for , this company ' has madi v much moro satisfactory show, thai isual, and fully compensates for the pre rious fortnight's comparatively poor re urn.' So far as the low level is concerned iperations are now being carried on 01 m island which will shortly' ba sub nerged. The water is in the Brigli Jmile at one side, and in tho City o jondon on tho other, and it has no grea leight now to reach before it is up to thi Jueen of Beauty level.; In the mean ime the manager is securing the working! o.prevent damage, should the water bi illowcd to rise into the level and stopes, ; Alboenia,-There was a rumour oi Saturday that operations in the Alburnii nine had been suspended, and tho handi lischarged, but upon inquiry of thi nanager, we learn that there isno trutl u the . rumour, nor no present , intentioi if discharging any hands. Now that thi ipper levels of the company's mine tha ire above the battery level are nearlj ixhausted,itis contemplated to removethi lattery lower down the creek to the moutl if the Sons of Freedom tunnel, whicl vill be the future, maiu outlet from al ections of this company's property. _ 0 lourse the battery in its present positioi vould be useless to the company aftei he remaining blocks of the upper leveli lecome exhausted. Cbown Pbinoess.—Crushing for thi: lompany will be started. to-day at the Jright Smile old battery with a force o .2 he&d of stampers. ■ There is not si arge & quantity of stuff as usual availablf or the mill. In fact, for some time pasl he principal portion of the crushing stuf las been derived from two winzes whicl] ire being sunk on No. 2 reef, more ecently there has been some additional rom the winze started on the No, 3 lode, [here is little doubt, however, but thai Ithough less in quantity the present (rushing will bo of superior quality tc ,ny of its predecessors, for there are lewt of specimens aud picked stuff on land, the whole of which has been elected from the general stuff now being orwarded to the mill. Excellent process has, been made with the chief works If the mine, during the past week. The Phe main shaft is now down 64 feet in plendid country, and it_ will reach the lepth at which the level is to be opened bis week;. No. 2 winze on the No. 2 eef is down 37 feet, and No. 3 winze on he same, lode is down 34 foet. Both have arried good rich gold from top to bottom. The winze which has been Btarted on No. I reef is down seven feet, and also shows [old, , but not in such rich quantities as hose on the No. 2.