SCANDINAVIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10630, 2 February 1909, Page 1

SCANDINAVIAN.

The followjing (report, was suibmitsks at ly^tiei'dla./s lme(\fcing:—-"The diretotbrs regret Qilat they have riothingl of ai speoiaJty favourable nature to report. Dtevelolpmenit work has beteoi carried 9xl during the yetar, :and sev^iml reefs have been cut and opeaed oiuit, amd 1 whilst occasional ctaibs and colours of gold are met with so far the orei has not been; of sufficient value "to warfant its being taken away for treatment, and! it is questionable whether it would pay : expense® even, wdrei a baititetry available on the ground. Ait the sam© tame the valueß are suoh as to warramt the belief that playable ore will 'bei mat with in, the Totality."

The mm& manager 1 {Mr 1 "William Goldsworthy) reported : takinlor over the management of yotir mine in June of lasf yeiar, operations have, been Carried on, oonitinuously wjth an! average staff of five men as qlnder:~iWith theu tlwofold object" of seciirioig th© venltiilatiom of the mine, and of initersectingl tih© rtm of a shoot of £©ld worked in formier timte® from surface workings down to tihe No. 8 level.on Lowriei's reef a rise wta* put uip i. diLstaWc© of ®7ft from the No. 10 level inxnatediaiely owr where th? jrold was cti* in tih'e laititer level, and holder in the floor 1 of Nb. 8 level under the old stopea The reef was then) taken out from wall to wall for the length of the rise, and proved from 5 to 12 feet In width. The drive north hiaß jbeen, extended 52ft (the reief vuryniDig from 4 t>o 8 feet ip widtihi), miaiking! the total distance driven on the course of the reef north and south of the crosscut about 200, feet. Four successive stopes ~ have been, taken from the rise north for a distance of 50ft, in v all about 32, square fathoms of stoping. In all ol theee workings the quartz, the country, and the mineral indications generally have been consistently of a good class, and 1 though, .so far, ; no picked atone has come to handi colors and dabs of gold were oocaaionially met wiith, portions of the ,gfeneral ore also containing fair values. The maitt--crossout has also beeut < extended! 70ft into the footwall country of i Lowrie's; reef, with the oibject of outting the Black reef, at this the lowest level im the mine. Several otringeig and ocoutrenoes of quartz have beia passed thu-cAigh, a further 15 or 20 feet of driving being peoessaiy V, prove the eiißt«nce of this reef, when it is lioped a repetition of the good results obtainied in the workings *vn the ovei-head levels on this reef will eventuate. 'Nortihward' tihe trend "JF the two parallel reiefs" mentioniedi is tKrpughi*a beltl of awriferoiiis siandston* of a kindly nature, and anyv extension of either the atopes or driv3s mi that direction should be productive of goodl results."