MINING NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1328, 26 November 1883, Page 2

MINING NEWS.

[From our Mining Reporter] Saturday, November 24. The following are the battery returns for the past; week : — Keep-it-Dark. — 4410z lOdwla of amalgam from 178 tons of stone (including coutents of boxes). Retorted gold for the month 3670z 14dwta. Globe. — 4040z of amalgam for the fortnight (inclusive of contents of boxes). Total amalgam for the month 9840z. ORIENTAL. The company did not clean up at the battery to-day. The half-yearly meeting is fixed for next week, and it was decided to run on till then, when the general cleaning up will take place. KEEP-IT-DAPvK. The regular monthly cleaning up took place at the battery to-day, the result being 441 ozs. lOdwts. of amalgam for the fortnight, and total of 3670z5. 14d\vts. of retorted gold for the month. The directors will meet on Monday next to declare the regular dividend. GLOBE. The general cleaning up took place at the battery \o-day after the fort-

night's run, the result being four hundred and four ounces of amalgam, making the total amalgam for the months crushing nine hundred anc 1 eighty-four ounces.- This gives an average return of something like 9dwts. per ton, which, considering the curing of the plates and absorption of new : silver, niust be regarded, as a highly satisfactory return. It is also worthy of note that m the earlier stages of the j crushing the tables were found in working to have 'too little pitch for : the~quality'bf the stone, necessitating .an, alteration, and which would account for a slight loss. It can be safely predicted that the next month's operations wiirshbw a "great improvement, and as the crushing just concluded leaves a very handsome margin of profit, the shareholders may look to the future with the greatest confidence. The tramway is now in full -working order, the mine well opened up, and one may safely prophesy a long and prosperous career for the undertaking.