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quartz outcrop that had previously been neglected, and a new company known as the Swastika was formed, which carried out a certain amount of development work on this outcrop and on several smaller ones in the vicinity. The new company met with no success, however. Some small crushings, totalling 118 tons of quartz, were taken from the various formations, but on treatment they only yielded 29 oz. 15 dwt. 8 gr. gold, valued at £116 5s. 7d., equal to a return of only a trifle over 5 dwt. per ton. By the end of 1914 all work once more ceased on the field, and there has been no resumption up to the present.

H. A. Gordon describes the quartz veins of the Mokihinui district as being for the most part small lenticular veins conforming to the bedding of the country.

Waimangaroa Reefs.— Gold-bearing quartz appears to have been first discovered in this locality, near the head of Stony Creek, and at an elevation of about 2,000 ft. above sea-level, in 1875, and a company was formed to work there. A battery was erected, but the enterprise soon failed, and nothing more in the nature of mining seems to have been done till about 1885, when some good stone was found on an area held by the Great Republic Company, which was formed in 1882. Operations were carried on by this company till 1890, but no solid reef was at any time got, the quartz being all mined from loose blocks that were evidently brought down by slips from higher country. No plans of the workings exist, but for the main part they consisted of short drives or crosscuts put into the loose material lying on the hillside. The only considerable working was a low-level adit which was put in for 215 ft. in 1890 in the hope of striking solid reef behind the slip country, but no reef was met with in it. Information at hand regarding the quantity of stone crushed, yield of gold, &c., is very scanty, all that is known being that prior to 1887 some 1,500 tons of quartz were crushed which yielded 1 oz. gold per ton, and that dividends amounting to £1,900 were paid out. A good deal more stone was crushed during the following years up to 1889, but there are no records as to the tonnage and yield. It is known, however, that a further £1,900 was paid in dividends, making altogether £3,800 disbursed. The Mines Reports of 1890 show that the total value of the gold won was £12,000.

After the cessation of operations in 1890 by the Great Republic Company no further quartz-mining seems to have been done on the field till the Britannia Gold-mining Company was formed to work some new outcrops that had been discovered close to the old Republic ground. This company had much the same experience as the other, inasmuch as all the reef found was badly broken, and occurred in small blocks with no defined strike or dip. A two-stamp battery was erected and a small cyanide plant, and in a modest way work was carried on till 1910, during which period 3,847 tons of stone were treated for a yield of 3,534 oz. 13 dwt. 21 gr. gold, valued at £13,330 2s. 3d., and dividends to the amount of £3,242 were paid. No plan of the mine-workings is available, but no less than seven levels were driven, the longest being No. 7, which intersected the reef-line at 143 ft. All the workings were in badly crushed ground. Other outcrops on the claim were also tried, one of them, discovered near the north-eastern corner, yielding at the rate of 10 dwt. gold per ton from a crushing of 48 tons, but when the reef was driven on the values fell away.

In 1902 the old Republic ground was taken up by a local syndicate known as the Stony Creek Gold-mining Company, for the purpose of working a new outcrop that had been located on the area. A crushing of 200 tons