MINING NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8618, 24 March 1897, Page 2

MINING NEWS.

(By oar Special Reporter.)

IfROGAN (Pom).

Splendid headway has been made with the crosscut to intersect No* 3 reef, and for the week a length of 10 feet was driven. This crosscut passed through the No. 2 reef, but nothing beyond a fine healthy body of ore containing good minerals was seen. Much better prospects are anticipated when the No. 3 reef comes to hand, that is judging by the class of ore met with at the outcrops.

GRAND TRIPLE (Puru). * The development work in this mine is solely confined to the advancement of the No. 1 level eastward, upon that bearing of the cro3slode. This quarts body presents a nust promising appearance and is highly charged with' good minerals of the right class. When the junction of this and the big reef evectuate^i, which should be in another 25 feet, something of importance should result.

PURU CONSOLIDATED. Work in this mine is being actively carried on, and so far as can be seen there is no change one way or the other. The drives at both levels have been suspended to enable the uprise from No. 2 -to No. 3 level to be carried through as speedily as v possible Owing to the very great length of the faces of these drives from the surface it has been a matter of compulsion to secure the required ventilation, and that can only be secured by the rise to connect both levels. The present height of the rise is over SO feet, and at the last breaking of the lode at this point of development gold was very freely seen, whilst the lode is a strong denned body, measuring from 2 to 3 feet in thickness.