MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7146, 11 February 1892, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Occidental.—Thiß compiny'g crushing of 19 loads of quartz and 20lbs of pioked stone waß completed yesterday for.the return of, 65oze lOdwts of go'd. f ride op Kauaka,—A start was made yesterday afternoon to forward tho quartz on baud to Bull's battery, where i s treat, ment was (o hsve been commenced !a«t ovenipg. About 30 loads will be ormhed thia time, and as colours of gold were seen pretty freely whilst breaking it out, a good payable return is anti lipated. 'I'he manager (Mr J: Hardman) reports as follows; We completed squaring up theond of ground on Friday; when'a start was made to rise to meot the winze coming down from the upper level. The fourth stops has heon advanced ft further distance of 30 feet, tho quartz averaging about U inches in thickness, and in breaking down a few pieces of pioked stone wero selected from tiie general dirt ; I have aleo commenced to rise for the fifth stopo. Top lev. 1. The winze has btcn sunk a further distance of nine feet, making a total of 38 feet,

May Quern,—A. very noticeable improvement was been yesterday in the quality of No 4 reef in the eastern irive, new section, at So 2 level, and colours of gold were seen for the first time, The drive is now in a distauoe of 124 feet from the crosscut, noil an cxcelleut class' of owntry is being penetrated, tho reef being about two. feet in thickness and showing nice mineral indioa l . tions. Tho leading stopo ovsr this drive i> at present at a standstill, but the second And third are in progress, tho reef in the first being about 9 inches in thicknea', and in tho latter three feat and showing colours lof gold, West of the rise Nosl, 2, and il stope* arc underway, and in those tho reef

ranges from 18 inches to two feet in thick* ness, and looks very promising, the stopes in the old block aro without change, the quartz coming to hand showing colours ol gold aod being of a'payablo quality. Tht contractors for driving from ttjo bottom of

the winzi recently sunk bslowNo 2 level, towards the old Queen of the May shaft, have driven IS feet siuoe starting, but the country is rather tight. The yield of amalgam from the quartz crushed during the week ending with Tuesday last is l7ooz ICdwt.

Saxon', -The manager (Mr T. A. Dunlop) reports: "No 6 level: The principal work oarried on' during the week ha* been the stopes over this level on the No 1 miiu reef, So 2 reef east of No 2 break, and No 2 and new reef, '1 here is little change to report from them with tho exoeptiou of No 1 reef east, ■, In these stopoi the two east of No 2 winze aro now in hand, and also the lost Stope on tho V Block. A3 these stopes are being finished here tho men are removed, tc the opening up of the stopes on the No 2 reaf east and west of tho Koj 1 and f breaks. It is also intended to open om on a new leader that \va3 out in the crosscut driven from the No 2 reef to tho No 1, in whioh a leader about a foo in thickness, was men with, and a few pounds of pioked Uone weie obtained in cutting through it. So far I have not been in a position to lest it till now. Should this turn out fairly well, there should be 260 feet of it in length betwoen Ncs, 1 und 2 breads, and from the prospects here I have even' reason' to believe it will turn out fairly well No, 3 level: During the week a distance of 15ft has boen driven along the course of the new reef. It runs from 12 to loin in thick* ness, and frequently small patches of picked stone have been met with. The drive ha? now been discontinued for the present and the sinking of a'winze started to connect with the stopes over No 4 level pnthaßatM reef, Here we will soon have a large block available for stoping on the reef between Nos 4 and 3 leve's. The bittcry has been fully employed during the week. Amalgam on baud, 2160z5. Picked stone on hand, lSlbs, Moanataiahi. - The manager : Mr 0, Clark) in the course of his reporc writes a« follows: Gold is being sesn at all tho point? of operation?, and the wond-r is that some better patches are not met with, In the leading and second etope west on the janotion of tho JReubon Parr and flat lead above the intermediate level there is a width of fully 7ft of orushing dfrt being broken out, and as the two lodes are now separating from eaoh other, there' should be better erad" quartz obtained. Very hard ground has been gone through in the crosscut goine from the iootwall drive to the Golden Age, but to-day'it was much easier, and I expect that tho vertical leader is close at hand. In tho stopes on tho Golden Age reef above the 100 feet level a separate body of stone has been discofored striking away into the footwall. AVhother ib may provoidentioal with the lode driven on for some distanoe on the Point Ru'sell level, I cannot say, but it is a, nioe class of stoup, and shows somo good strong gold. Tho Houben Parr and footwill lodes in the etopps, whjeh are row o'oaa up to th? iloor of the Point Kussdl level, are looking muqh the same so that I can see no reason why wo should not obtain payable ore above the level, and as both reefs are intact a'most to the surface thero will bo a large'block to operate unou. The drive on the Point Kussell level.is bping continued on the haugingwall of the Golden Age reef, where somo five feet of atone is being broken out, but for the past week there has not been any gold seeu, A little gold is occasionally Bteo in the stopes here on the hansringwall or Dawn of Hope lead, but so far it has not turned out nearly so well as on the level,