MINING NEWS

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1381, 31 March 1884, Page 2

MINING NEWS-

• [From our Minma R porter] Saturday, March 22. The following are the battery returns for the week ; — Welcome 4480zs of amalgam for. the week. Keep- it-Dark. — 418ozs of amalgam for the week. Globe. — 393 ozs. of amalgam for the week. Fiery Cross Extended 3200z5. of amalgam for the week. The mines and batteries of the following five companies are still idle : — Golden Point, Oriental, Rafny Creek, Lankey Greek, and Dauntless Extended. Regarding the Oriental, one of the directors informs me that it is intended to recommence woi'k in the mine at an early date. The Rainy Creek and Golden Point batteries are hung up owing to the difficulty of collecting calls, and nothing will be done in either as long as the prevailing depression lasts. The Wealth of Nations, Golden Fleece, Energetic, and Caledonian Extended batteries are also idle, hut prospecting works of a more or less extensive character are being earned on in the mines of each, and from which good results may b« fairly looked for in the immediate future. The only batteries now in course of erection on the field are those of the Golden Treasure, Inglewood Extended and Tnkerman. The two first-named are finished, and the. third will be out of

hand in a very few weeks. Thus, of the 17 batteries all told on the field, the following eight will for a certainty be all crushing simultaneously during : the second quarter of the present year: - Welcome, Fiery Cross, Specimen Hill, I Golden Treasure, Inglewood, Keep-it-Dark, Globe, and Inkerman — with the reasonable chance of the Oriental and Golden Fleece being also of the number of producers.