TE AROHA MINING. [FROM SATURDAY'S AROHA NEWS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1781, 4 December 1883, Page 2

TE AROHA MINING. [FROM SATURDAY'S AROHA NEWS.]

Nkw Find.— This is now regarded as the loading mine on the field, through the fact of its heading the list of gold leturns, and giving every promise of being able to keep, not only ten head of stampers going, but also the whole force of the battery employed on general stuff, if it had the chance, owing to the enormous body of payable quartz which is now being opened up. This is the pioneer mine of the field, and it was on the footwall of the mountain of quartz which forms the big reef that Hone Werahiko first found the gold, which caused the rush. It should here be remarked that owing to a peculiar division of the reef in the right hand drive ftom the crosscut, and the apparent course of the main branch, the manager thinks that the compact lode of four feet in width' on which lie is now driving is identical with the footwall portion of the big reef, in which as stated Werahiko found the precious metal. His belief was held some time ago t by inineib who have prospected in this locality. The New Find or No. 2 reef is certainly looking very well at the present time. The drive north and south are each advanced about 30 feet from the crosscut, good crushing stuff coming fiom each face, gold could be seen on a big face stripped on the surface as well as with stone coining out of the level. The leading .slope i\s now being carried along over the two diives. Eukeka.— Visitors going to the Eureka mine find themselves not onlyat thofurthest developed end of the New Find reef, but as it were, at the end of civilisation in this direction. Here is the whaie of Messrs Bennett and Wilson, whose work shows what Te Aroha miners can accomplish. In this at present lonesome spot they have been toiling for two yeais without the incentive which claims more conveniently situated to the road receive, through the visits of persons interested in the progress of work, but they had a still better incentive in the knowledge of being on a payable lode which averages four feet wide, and it was this fact and the frequent d.ibs of gold in the stone which led them to do the amount of work which has been accomplished, chiefly by two men. In all theie has been done 300 feet of diiving, 05 feet of a rise, and a winze is down oO feet. When the rise is through, a block of 150 feet of the reef will be opened, which will be through before the holiday s, when a very .large blook of ground will be ready for stoping. In the low level the country is of a kindly character, nice easy shooting ground, and of the light class for carrying gold, which latter has been seen in the stone the whole way down, proving theieby the existence of the precious metal at a considerable distance fi oin the sin face. The reef carries good walls wheiecutthiough, andas> it is now kuown to be the New Find reef, its satisfactory development at so distant a point, and at such a depth, give* additional testimony to the value of the lode, and also serves to .show the value of intervening ground, some of which does not appear to be worked just now, but is certainly worth development. Mr Goidon, the Inspecting Engineer of Goldfields, was much intciested in hearing that the highly payable New Find lino of leef had been traced through a number of mines, and tested with favourable lesiilts, at such a depth. Gold was first .seen in stone broken out of the cap of the reef out-cropping iv the creek below the whare ; it was seen for fifty feet down the winze, and is visible in stone now coming out of the rise. A wire tramway is to be constiucted at once to connect with the county tram ; this will be the first of its kind on the field. When the two tons from the Eureka mine were crushed at the Alburnia b vttery, Grahamstown, Mr Hadford put on gratings of 11)0 to the inch, and the result was Boz. of amalgam, which gave 3ozs. Bdwts. retorted gold, losing sdwts. in the melting. The stuff sent down was not picked, and was treated merely for the private information of shareholders. The amalgam was squeezed in hot water. Waiokoxhouai. — The reef, five feet in thickness, extending along the eastern boundary of the claim, aud underlining into its continue*, is turning out payable crushing stuff, gold beinj fiequently seen in the stone. Caxadiax. — Two men are engaged driving a level to cut th 3 New Find reef. The manager is prospecting a surface section in the hopes of picking up the cap of another reef believed to ba running through the ground nearly parallel with the New Find No 2. DiAJioxn Gum,y.— The work of opening up on the line of the New Find reef progresses satisfactorily. Ixvekxess.— The low level is still going through fair country. Welcome. —Good stone was broken yesterday from near the point where the late rich crushing was obtained. Wekvhiko. — The mine manager, Mr E. Cameron, has received instructions to berdan two tons of tailing with new silver for the purpose of ascei taming their value.