GENERAL NEWS

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10461, 11 September 1911, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS

THE MINING INDUSTRY.

RECORD PRODUCTION OF GO~AL

The output of nni'irals tor the. yivir shows a slight decrease, but this Ls Iwlanced by a lar,p increase in tho' production of coal, so that the. tot,il value oi the output of the underground -Health of fi'p I Dominion sho«s an incre;isp for thj your (says the Fiiiauei.il .SUteuvnt) The decreaso in the irodnction uf hih! silver is largely attiibui.il,! • to Ihe m slrict-ed opointions of tlie \V;iiiii C;<ilf| Mining Company, but it i s hoped thr.t tho check is only temporary, and, tint when cheap pomer from the iTor.ihor.i Falls is available the company vil' bi i-« ft position to profitably tns.it W k ;r,. \ ores, which at present aro of no \ :l,io Mobt- "f the Australian SUiU'o cilso rlccreases in the gold yielJ. Theio is every justification for regarding the future (>l mining in New Z&iinncl wftl' confidence, and recording,, the conviction that with fair encour-i^emunt in the work of dovelopnient an even more prosperous era than tho industry has yt t experienced is coming. One n.iner.il ih.it siums -i largo iucrc.iso in production is sclirelito, ■which is being acthtly mintd hi Central Otago, also in the Waiau Valloy in the AUrlborough Jiftrict. The -dri^inc; ot tho deep level croscut at Thiimeb is be ing actively carried on, and the striking at good prospects in the i-iiurs^i (if the work encourages tho hope Mud tin' ta'--ourablu i'jiticipaiinns will be retlijcd.

The production of coal continues to increase, and. for tho first time in the history .of the Dominion the two million tons' mnxk has been passed, a tottil of 2.197,362 tons having been produced against 1,911,447 tons in the previous year v ,:- •. . „'.-' . . ;. .'