MINING NEWS.
WAIORONGOMAI,
Tho whole of the first kilu has (says tho" Nows") beon treated by tho battory, with what result is not as yet known.
On Wednesday last tho battory started on 21 trucks of New Find dirt. This is tho rofuso of a larger parcol from which 10 tons (picked stuff) wero forwarded to Queensland some short timo ago, and which wo understand realised £*20 per ton. Tho assay valuo of the present lob is said to bo £710s a ton.
As tho Syndicate intend treating the wholo of tho old tailiugs by "tho Cassel procoss, a hopper has' been orccted outside tho battory building, tho mouth of which is on a level with the upper part of tho tanks. A tramway has boon laid from tho hoppor to the battory, Tho serial tram orected somo time ago delivers tho tailings into tho hopper,
There aro now eight or ton men working on tho New Find; none on tho Silver King.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7582, 17 July 1893, Page 2
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163MINING NEWS. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7582, 17 July 1893, Page 2
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