MINING.
The following report of- the Mount Lyell Mining and Eailway Company for the week ending April 8 has been received from Dunedin from our special correspondent :— " Smelting plant— Furnace No. 2 has been blown in again. Furnace No. 1 has shut down foi: repairs to the -upper jackets, also to tide over the interval during which the Eailway Department is re-laying the through train with heavier rails. Extension of smelting plant — The training timbers for storage bins, No. 3 furnace, upper jackets, are in place. The brickwork of the shaft has been completed, and wo are erecting the iron superstructure over the same. The iron and brickwork of the hearth are in progress. Furnace No. 4— The excavation for the foundations of same are nearly completed. The now engine-room retaining wall is in progress. The converter plant is working continuously -with one vessel 1 . About six hundred and forty tons of blister copper have been shipped to date. We are shifting the converter train line from the machine shop to the converters, in order to make room for the extension of the blasthirnace slag dump. We ai-e also extending the terminus of the maiii line in front of the converter building."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5859, 29 April 1897, Page 1
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202MINING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5859, 29 April 1897, Page 1
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