MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6602, 6 May 1890, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

■; NBW iv MoANATAUBi.—The niine mimager reports • The ;lhird' stupe is now in hand at No 3"level of the Cambria etmfi. The lode iscontjnaingto look much about tho same, bat. if. anything there ie more solid quarts thrbugh it. Point Russell level: The,drive'on the Golden Age reef ie being worjted -with two men,.and is now through the renf ; into the heogingwall. Reuben Parr reef: The workings from the wioze a r o'continuing to produce good'crushing 'dirt, and about 15lbs of fair picked stone have beon eeleoted during the In I he western face the reef looks ; ; particularly promising, and continues a fine, etroag body of quartz through which gold is st en'every breaking down. Main tunnel: A start hue been made with tho rise to connoot with the workings on the intermediate level above. Tho rise will be carried up 12ft x 4ft, divided with three compartments, viz., a travelling way and !wo posses. The rook drill will be used to carry up tbe rise, so that I lint e to make good headway after I get the first timbers in position, Tho surface dirt is continuing to shape much the earne as usual,

Frbepom.—The mine man.igor reports: -"Very'lilile work has been done in the crofscuf.(hie week. The men have been mgiiged opening out on the hangingwall leader east of [lie crosscut, This work is well in hand now, and the crosscut will be continued on Monday with twoshiflp, Fifteen feet hare been driven east on the bngingwall leader from the croeicul. The leader has,.been broken down up to the face, and I am ploaeed to say that it is improving, both in ( jsize and appearance as driven,on, -It ie now six iooliee wide iu the' face of the drive, and incased in i n excellent class of eandstone. We may expect gold any breaking down. We are saving the ore for treatment. The twe-j inoh leader cot- last week ip the footwall Ins now nearly junctioned with iho ab"v: only about -twelve inches of sanduione separating them in tho faoe; boih leaden have been oarried along in the drive and saved for ireatmont, .The day shift have bcon engaged the greater'part ot the past week preparing l.lmbof oml pldolog it In boeliion on llio orossout atiil hanglflgwiill foedoMlrlvOf Tilly work will bpooißJiloy on Monday tiogt. whou tlio moti \v\\\m mm drfviog on tlio loader/'