LATEST MINING NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VIII, Issue 2473, 10 February 1909, Page 3

LATEST MINING NEWS

TALISMAN CONSOLIDATED,

£12,452 FROM 3500 TONS. During the- broken period ended January 31 tlio Talisman Consolidated crushed and treated 3500 tons for ut return of bullion valued at £12,452 15s j|r. 2d, The total amount won from the W~/ mino to date is £1,014,779 2s 4d, as ft.' shown in the following table of dcwm' tails: ~To December. 1898 £39,8'/o 7 3 '. To December, 1899 35,317 6 6 To December, 1900 28,645 2 7 To December, 1901 16,764 19 8 To December, 1902 24,26213 4 To December, 1903 88,09 a 6 5 To December, 1904 84,826 1 7 To December, 1905 129,085 8 10 To December, 1906 152,011 3 7 To Dccombor. 1907 184,44713 1 To December, 1908 218,992 4 4 Total 1,002,326 7 2 Period .ending— January 31, 3500 tons 12,452 15 2 Total to date 1,014,779 2 4 Total dividends declared (since reconstruction) 255,000 0 0 MINING NOTES —*—, (From the N.Z. Mines Record). The (sanitary arrangements of Austrian coal-mines piissws features that ought to commend themselves to mineowners. Portable sanitary closets must be provided for every fifty men. Baths arc also provided on the surface.—" Engineering and Mining Journal, NewYork, Permits for Sunday labour in minei. were issued by the Inspector of Mines, during the month of December, for three men at the. Waiotahi mino. Thumcs, and for seventeen men for the Thaiiios-Hiinraki pumps.

Written mid oral examinations of candidates for certificates as first and sccond-cla <s mine managers and battery (superintendents under "The Mining Act, t908," and first and second-class nunc under " The Coal Mines Act. 1!)08," will be held on Tuesday, the 23rd March, 1905), and following days, at tho Thames, Waihi, Bccftoii, and Dunedin.

The Engineering and Mining Journal (New I'ork) states that at the Alaska'i'raidmill mine, in Douglas Island, Abudja, lib of chronic steel in the shoes crushed 2.94 tons of ore in the 240slamp mill, and in the 300-stainp mill 2.34 loiifj. during the year ended !)lsf May 1008.

More than 100,000 tons of .cement ruck and limestone was loosened by a tnmendous blast in a. cement-quarry at IJuth, iii Pennsylvania. The shock was felt lilteen miles away.

There was a considerable increaso in Hie quantity of silver exported during the past twelve months (168,733055.), bin owing to the shrinkage in value there was only an iucroaßo of £5,853. The total quantity of silver exported in 1008 from the gold mines in the Auckland district was 1,731,3360z., valued at £175,337; in 1007 the figures were 1,562,60302., valued at £169,484. Up to the 31st December, 1008, 11,170,7320z., valued at £1,266,088, was exported from the Dominion, principally from Auckland.

The total exports of gold from Otago during the year 1908 was 97,8440z., valued at £395,809. In the year 1907 the quantity exported was 118,3520z., valued at £478,5)82. Last year's export from Otago is the -lowest since 1898, when only 55,8430z., valued at £223,231, was exported. Up to the last year oi the past decade the export varied from 129,0750z.'(the lowest) in 1900 to '181,11602. (the highest) in 1902. Otago's total export of gold to the 31st December, 1908, was 6,85)2,5820!!., valued at £27,393,851, AUCKLAND SHAREMARKET To-Day's Noon Gall Special to tho Daily Telegraph. AUCKLAND, this day. Mr, Arthur E, Greenslado, sharebroker eports the Auckland Stock Exohange uotations at noon to-day as follows i SALES May Queen, 2s2d, Sylvia, Is 9d Koyal Oak, Is od Crown, 4s 8d Golden Belt, 2d, IJs<l Waihi, £9 2s 9d Mountain Kiny, Is, 10^d BUYERS, Caledonian, Gd May Queen, Is lid Albumia paid 9d Saxon, Is 3d Victoria, l'A& Waiotahi, 2s Id Wailiingi, lis 9d lliuraki, Is Oak Is 4d Champion, lid Crown, 4s Gd Bolt, lU;d Karangalmke, 10c' Komata, 6d . Phcenix, 4d Broken Hills, Is i)d Monarch, 2d Reefs, 2d Taliumun, 48s Gd Waihi £9 & M Extended, 3s 3d Junction, 26a Gd Mountain King, paid la 2d