LYELL MINING
(Lyell Times.) UNITED ALPINE. Saturday 6 The cleaning up at the battery took place on Thursday and from 309 tons of stone treated 432 ounces of amalgam was obtained from the plates. Owing to a slight error made in the distance from the main uprise the stone struck in the Prospecting drive has not been opened on, the mine manager having tried to get into the stone by the halfyearly meeting, but foun Jit impossible. The stone is now stripped 10 feet in length and shows to be very solid, and will he driven into and tested by the middle of next week. The tramway in the intermediate is laid, and everything is in readiness to block out as soon as the reef is cut through.
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Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1780, 8 November 1886, Page 2
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128LYELL MINING Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1780, 8 November 1886, Page 2
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