MINING NEWS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8161, 28 June 1895, Page 3

MINING NEWS.

WAIHI EXTENDED.

The manager reports:-" The drive is now in 28 feet timbered and secured. The ground is lirst-class sandstone, with quartz and iron veins all through it, and precisely similar to our best gold-bearing strata of the Thames. " HAURAKI No. 2 (Coromandel). The-manager reports:-"Owing to the want of air in No. 1 drive I had to stop driving and start the men to put up a rise to the surface to get air. The country is first-class for gold." BROKEN HILL. The manager reports:-" We have driven four feet during the past week, which makes a total of 75 feet. The country is all that could be desired, and the reef is more compact and of the usual thickness, namely, four feet, and the ore coming to hand is of a very kindly nature. WAITEKAURL Only one tender was received for the first section of the now low level, but as the price demanded was considered too high, the company has decided to push the work ahead by wages men, and as a consequence operations will be commenced forthwith. Already the initial work, such as laying down the tip, etc., has been that no delay will now be occasioned in commencing the face." IMPERIAL. What is evidently another break made its appearance yesterday in the face of the low level, and as a consequence the reef is split up considerably, though a little gold was seen in the quartz broken out of one of the stringers. The new cross course is apparently a stringer, as the manager did not anticipate meeting with any similar body until the big break, about 00 feet further ahead, -was intersected. More definite information regarding the matter will, however, be known in a day or two.