GOLD MINING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 925, 21 November 1933, Page 6

GOLD MINING.

Company Reports and Returns. F®r Press Association. WESTPORT, November 20. With lOOos obtained for the first five weeks’ work the recently formed Addison’s Gold Mining Company’s endeavours have proved that the old Charles-ton-Addison diggings were not worked out. Besides this big claim another company is working on a large scale in the near vicinity, while many small parties w l ll aW tho wa Y from Westport to Brighton. The beaches are being scoured and the hills in the Karaplc“o?s haVO many proaBuller seems to be on the eve of a mild gold mining boom. a Golden Surfs. The Golden Sands mine manager at Barrytown reports that the return for thirty-three shifts was 31os 16dwt. Uaarearfcaana Goldfields Company, Lt 4. Under the guidance of the company's w - “ow Uimso£ the dnectors, Messrs W S Vaofiihhnn (chairman), T. W Rer'rvw *n M’Donald and Dr Ulrich, and a lar?e party of business men visited the Maennnv,e« DU i' Goldfields Development Company s claim at Livingstone during the vveek-end. Although only one water x^f«.J ,Vas ln operation sixteen heads of were available and this enabled an interesting test of one of the moniThe giant sluicing machine poured tons of water oh to the face, which was literally eaten re ™ Qt ® control equipment which enables the operator to stand a considen.ble disUnee away from the •“* direct the angle of the flow or the water proved highly satisfactory and a most sensitive piece of mechanism. Following on the tests w«l now be commeSSed in ’T s , «nlly and when the tall race tunnel is completed about the middle' of January sluicing will also be carried Goldin r*«n nS v£ further monitors in SLw*** 11 ? u , Uy * company’s complete ruary® being in operation about FebThe visitors were then conducted °Y® r a Portion of the water races and shown the dams which are betas built L°,? tQre * he ’»»*«'■- The lower dam Is ""vl' on the way towards completion and enr!? I f- rD A, r6ss has fie*" made with the ?P«>e r dam. Time did not of the tall race tunnel which is half way through but taken to T *it the Stdi or C ’ A ** ms «■* north side, of the Maerewhenua River. With a •itnited water supply and working only three or four hours a dav Mr Adams has taken. 350* of gold out of claim within the last fortnight. The visitors included Messrs T. Newburgh. R. Bush. F BarloW. G. Hunter fon C ‘.^? 1 w Cl< B^ h ’ J ’ . Wils °n. O. J. Wilson and R. Panworth of Christchurch, S' JL- **<* T. M. M’Kay (Moutere), C. S, Harris and H. Z. Chapman (>velson and A. Gibson (Wellington) S ° n) ’

J»ortk inku North Broken Hill following production Hill Output. Ltd., reports the Sept Oct Crude ore treated, tons Assaying— 31,979 15.1 30.9 6,060 75.2 4.6 ♦3ro 5,430 52.5 2,1 2.7 29.344 Zinc, per cent Lead concentrates, tons Assaying— Lead, per cent Zinc, per dent 10.4 5.630 7«.Q 3.9 Zinc concentrates. tons Assaying— 4,770 52.7 Silver, 02 2.4