MINING NEWS
St. Hirro —A parcel of ton pounds of pickod stono was obtained yostorday from the fifth stopo south of tho winze.
Oambria.— This company's monthly cleaning up and retorting took place yes* torday for the return of 1360zs of gold, which is tho product of : t)4 loads of quartz, and.3o lbs of picked <stono.;.'The managor (Mr Bnker) reports as fol-lows:-"About .eight feet has how been driven upon tho leader branching oft" No 1 loado) , afc No 2 level. The leader is'not so defined as it was, being at present divided into several veins, These, howover, have a favourable appearance for the ocenrronco of gold. Tho drive on tin) cross reof from the winze below No. 3 level in tho Cambria section is bejng nxfendad us usual. Chore has beotfho change hero during tho week. Tho rM still looks well and will averaee about; two foot in thickness. Tho main roof and various othor loadors boing stopad
on, above No 3 level in the Darwin sec* tion are still yielding a supply of quartz of a fair grade. A few pounds of picked stone wero also obtained from them daring the week. Preparations are at present being mado to sink a winze on No 1 leader in the main crosscut at No 3 level, for the of prospecting it below the level. This leader when worked above thisNo 3 level by Mr Moore yielded good crushing dirt, and several lots of picked stone wero also obtained from it immediately above the point where the winze is to be sunk "
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 764, 4 October 1893, Page 2
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260MINING NEWS Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 764, 4 October 1893, Page 2
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