MINING,NEWS.
■ KURANUL . Shares in this company were trans- • ■ferred'at noon call'yesterday at 4d, with sellers offering at 6d. / I ■> 1f ROYAL OAK. During the past month the Royal ■ Oak Company crushed, 30. tons of ' general quartz, and also treated 3681bs of picked stone, for a return of. melted > bullion amounting to'2osozß sdwt, and valued at J&775 16s 10d. f ' MINING'AT Mining operation? on this field are rather restricted' .at preseiit but the Bay View, Flossie, and Wealthy Mint .V.mine? are. steadilyjWorked,: and. small parcels of payable ore are .occasionally . obtained, A few men are engaged on .' • these claims and in surface prospecting in various parta;-ofvthe i and ( there will probably be other prospectors '. at work wnen the line weather sets , in, as the battery; Greeted at the foot of the -hiUjiby the Hauraki : Associated Gold-mining Company affords facilities for the treatment of small parcels of ore at fa reasonable cost, and the * values of any reefs or leaders dis* K -.covered can be cheaply determined. * ■ FOURrIN-HAND. ; v
A party of contractors are erigaget on'the neceßsary 'excavations, &c., fo: the battery, which this company havi decided to erect, and are pushing or with'the.work. Pending the ereotioi of the battery, there is very littl* doing, in the mine,. ,„ ' . PROGRESS GROUP. ~ Among tho passengers by tin Moana yesterday was Mr Alber Waltman; who has been engaged b] Mr Porter to take charge of the mill '• ' ing operations con nected with the Progiessmines(Zimans —group on the West Coast. M Waltman will be in Auckland for j ■ ~ few days before leaving for the coast. KAISER (Tararu). ' _ The exploratory work at this mini : :is being zealously carried on under the ' . mana'gerae'nt of Mr W. Martin, Thi manager intends driving on Paul's ree in Paul's level, and with this object ii ■ View he has commenced operations a ( r the above pamed level. Cleaning ou the.'samej retiinljoring and laying dowi . ■ rails <is now fa* progrisr;aiid '|o6! headway is being >Ib is exp'ecte't that the reof will be met with when tin . level ;iscleaned'odt "idistarici m ;of 38 feet. This. lode .is said t< ■<": fallow. nice; colors-of gold aiic! gpot ' are! Expected from-it.. I parcel of 10 or 12 loads of ore wdli Iron the.reef •Ih-th6Ub^lbv6l, ii upp'il whicl work hfts' Ji be'en x sus}sehded for : being, is'^to' 1 be" conveyed jr to ._ thi Moanataiari •' Cdmpa'nyV'battery> >fb: treatment. 1 ' l *' !i »' •/.> : - THAMES HAUHAKI; .. ARRIVAL OFPTIMPINGMAOfIIN -"7 \ < ERY,' '• ; l lh&'inau^Bt^ , ' onfuesday to^ft^ndmoisp.umpin{ , machinery, - ■ G.M.. .Company, it Having teen : orderet from> the Union iroi^ Messrs 'John Buras^ajia^ Ze aland agent&---Tfi^^ ordered two months ago, and guaran .... teed to ip ( . Auckland bj the27tkofKis 1 ii. th< v machinery" that" Oompany- was waiting' f6r its'uromp; " arrival wap amatter of great imj^orr day ' included vertical steam'sinking pumps, capabh \of doalihg.-.f.with 1,500,000 gallons o; 1 i water",per day.| f .Tlie'size of ;the pumpi •Wftjr- $e. estiinateivfrom thefact' thai the Jpluhger alone .weighs 3000lbs The Moana also broughtfor tK ! e Ham( company Corless 8 x 48, being of th< . latest type;' ; Now that this machinery ■ has come to- hand, 1 it is expected thai pumping will be commenced ir , November, ; . '
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9157, 29 September 1898, Page 4
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514MINING,NEWS. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9157, 29 September 1898, Page 4
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