a—3,

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The following statement shows the results of mining operations in the Ohinemuri District for the year ended 31st March, 1895.

Notk.—The areas shown do not include the whole of the land occupied, but only that from which the returns are derived. Te Aroha. Notwithstanding the failure of many mining companies on this goldfield, the day will come when the lodes will be opened out and rich returns obtained from them. The oftener one examines this country the more he becomes impressed with the certainty that rich auriferous lodes exist in this locality. The character of the tufaceous sandstone rock, and the number of lodes containing gold and other minerals which are found running through it in all directions, together with the main reef which goes right through the range for over three miles, cropping out at different places, and all containing gold in more or less quantity, are signs which tend to strengthen the abovementioned impression. The chief difficulty hitherto has been with respect to the treatment of the ores found in this district. The ores are in many instances very complex, as they contain not only gold and silver but copper, zinc-blende and galena, which composition makes them difficult ores to treat by the ordinary battery process, or even by the cyanide process, as it is well known that cyanide has nearly as much affinity for copper as it has for the precious metals. Eich deposits of gold have been found in the main lode, and in many places where the latter has been cut it showed that it contained gold, though not in sufficient quantity to pay—that is, when the cost of transit and the present mode of treatment is taken into consideration. A large amount of money has, no doubt, been expended on this field; but the greatest proportion of expenditure has been made, not in prospecting the lodes, but rather in the erection of a large plant for

Averi Numbi Mei emplo ige sr of For Owners. For Tril iuters. Tailii iga. Locality and Name of Mine. Area. S3 it iyed. red. i i ■§ I 13 Q H O N Gold o itained. •a a> c> Gold obtained. I ■a ED u p>) a Gold c ibtained. Amalgamation. Amalgamation. Cyanide. Amalgamation. Cyanido. Ohinemuri County. Marototo, Marototo Sundries A. R. P. 18 0 0 3 3 Tons. cwt. 508 0 1 13 Oz. dwt. 1,042 0 1 0 Oz. dwt. "2 15 Tons. lb. Oz. dwt. Tons. Oz.awt. Oz. dwt. 1,043 0 2 15 18 0 0 509 13 Karangahake— Woodstock Crown Talisman Earl of Glasgow Sundries 72 1 18 108 0 0 30 0 0 27 0 26 45 95 15 11 19 546 0 4,084 0 280 0 194 0 9 0 796 0 1,972 0 9,926 16 2,421 15 "20 io"s 297 12 30 19 o'30 4'lO 2 14 1,124 11 14,323 15 4 10 9.0 10 5 237 2 4 185 5,113 0 0 30 Owharoa— Smile of Fortune Oadman Madden's Folly 12 3 2 29 2 20 14 3 25 12 4 3 5 489 0 208 0 82 9 31 8 589 0 132 13 57 1 7 19 5 647 0 113 17 589 0 132 13 Waitekauri — Jubilee Grace Darling Sundries 15 0 0 6 16 16 3 10 '■87 19 17 1 35 0 1 0 21 6 15 0 0 38 3 10 55 0 35 0 1 0 21 Waitekauri N'th— Golden Cross .. 98 0 0 27 1,569 0 5,334 0 200 1,084 0 Komata— Komata St. Hippo Alpha 27 0 16 15 1 25 14 2 32 6 2 2 705 0 0 8 2 0 14,047 0 13 8 978 0 3 2 5 15 895 21 0 2,108 12 57 0 33 10 707 8 14,060 8 986 17 895 21 0 2,108 12 Waihi— Waihi Company Silverton Grand Junction Cassell's Sundries 127 0 20 10 1 10 230 3 3 11 6 22,080 0 55,676 0 18,722 14,472 10 "l 6 16 10 "2 2 137 1 30 253 22,081 6 16 10 55,678 2 18,722 14,472 10 Totals .. 620 1 34 16,413 6 76,359 19 590 30 158 9 19,837 31 5 17,665 2 538 5 30,630 17