MINING NEWS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 8088, 2 April 1895, Page 2

MINING NEWS.

lIAZELBANK. Tha manner wires: Crushed 37 loids completed' for 'he return of 32ozgold.— Jas. Coutts. NEW ALBURN! A., The wires.: Bank 2d 2240z retorted gold from-335 tonj v of general qusriz, and 10ib ; ,of picked - stone.—T. A. IJunlop,. - . , •' . : ROYAL t (Tapo),. Mr E. .Quinn ha? been, appoin'ad mauager of the above mine, and will resume operations at ono?. . It is'the • intention to, treat ten tons of general ore at the' Slieridiin Gojdmining CoraD&ny's bathr'y, and also two tons at the Thßines S'ohool of Mines. This should give the.compf ly a good idea.as to the best treatment suitable to their class of Dre. As tho gold is very fine and apparently of an uuoxidised class, it is ' quite possible the. treatment by cyanide will be adopted. NEW WHAU-. The manager reports Th e; cleaning up and repairing of the rortd and re- y pairing the tunnel has been completed and a fair start made with the>ise. The reef in the rise is a well defined and much better body of stone than I .even .expected to find at this point. This I may „ jsay is owiiig to the whole of the reef not I having been taken down when the drive ' was driven.''. There., id'• now". showing ia the use a reef 2ft : Biii in width'of h first class gold-bciiring stone heavily charged , wiih mineral, and I. have not as yet got the hanuingwallof the reef., As Boon as oossible I inteud .to have some small trial crushin s as we rise to prove the reef as we go.—Titos. Radford." NliW MOANATAIRI. The manager to-day banked 169ez< of ' ■■e'torted gold, for whi -h thele were treated 214 tons of quartz, 50lbs picked stone, and '132. tons of surface matt rial, the separate \ields bting—qua"z I49c'z; surface dirt, 20oz. The manager, roports " The general quarlz nnii s lrfacb dirt this week is shaping very poor, and as no picked stone has been forthcoming, our' monthly return on Monday will be small. A little goldj&being seen in. tho underhand stope,wjii.oh; is being. brought , along underthe il'or of the 100 foot level. This stope will be carried along for some distance further in order .to', prove if there is any gold going down at' any other jknht itfong the level,. The block of ground on the Dawn 'of Hope load, above tho intermediate level, is now exhausted, the last sfope under - the floor of.,tbe..old. level being almost forward to tho point where the lead dies out in the hard ground. There is another.lead here which 1 intend opening up, but it will take some time to get at. On and above the Dawn of Hope level it waa the best lead of the two, so that I see no reason why it should not be payable also down to its junction with • the big reef. The Golden Age fooiwall. lead is looking a little better, gold being more frequently seen, but as . the rib of stone is small the supply of quartz is limited. On the 120 foot level' the drive has been extended 25 feet past the point where the old level on No Lisef was driven. The latter reef at tbisptjintis all intact, but it is of a jf6ry:sofi and mullocky natureand underlying very flat, fully 20 feet being driven from the' point where the lode was first seen in the floor of the level before the back of the drive passed, through it. . As soon as tho line of the old workings on No 2 reef is reached, and a connection with the shaft effected, prospecting both lodes will be gone on with. Althongh,there, will be a good deal of old workings to Contend with, I am very hopeful of meeting with payable stone in- the unworked portions of tho lodes, both 5 above and below our present level. There is also.a chance of meeting with leads or droppers in the footwall of No 2 reef,—Gr. S. Clark." WAIHI-SILVERTON, The Waihi-Silverton G.M. Company received a cablegram from ; London as follows:—"Go.ahead with the develops ments in accordance with Mr Atoms' repor'." Mr Adams saya it means an outlay o f close on £10,000—sinking a main engine shaft, power r iil pumping machinery for the same,' the erec'ion of a 20 stamper battery, the construction of water rnces ojnd fact, evarytliingjci expedite the winning and reduction of. quar'z upon a large and economical scale. Mr Adams, who has boon waiting in town for this cable, leavos for the Up-country in the course of a day or two. Correction.—ln our roview. of the week in yesterday's issue we mentioned that a superior class of ore was, being met with in the Broken Hill mine than that «hk'hhad recently been treated at the School of Mines for £3 per ton- The £3 should have been £5, s > that the new ore . must beveiy promisiu; indeed,