3-082-515 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mining in New Zealand - Achilles Gold-Fields, Limited: tramway and adit level into side of mountains on to gold vein, 1895. 'Now that so much notice is being given to the gold-mining industry in New Zealand, it may not be out of place to call attention to the Shares of the above-named Company, which have not yet participated to any appreciable extent in the rise which other properties in that field have attained. This Company owns the celebrated Phoenix Mine, known to be one of the richest and best Gold Mines in New Zealand. It has been inspected and reported upon by several eminent engineers, who have declared that the quartz lodes are true fissure veins, and in true fissure veins it is well known that there is no fear of giving out or not paying as depth is reached, the experience being that they get richer the farther they go down...The property is situated on Skipper's Creek, Shotover River District, Lake County, Otago...The views show the 30-stamp Mill, Hoist, Machinery, &c., employed for the working and development of the property'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.