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Show GOLD CHAIN AND OPOHONGO MINES Resume Work Through Joint Working Work-ing Shaft Opohongo Gets Ore. The Gold Chain mine resumed work last night after a couple of weeks' shut down. The mine, was closed down on account of an accident to the boiler and rcali7lnff that it was only a mutter of a few days before the new Gold Chain-Opohengo compressor com-pressor plant would be in eperatlon, no effort was made to repair the boiler. The compressor plant we tried out during tho week and found to work in a satisfactory manner and last night the Gold Chain began drawing upon it for power enmgh to operate the hoist and also tlfc machine ma-chine drills. The usual tonnage of oro Is now being hoisted from this mine. As has previously been stated, tho new eomprenor plant Is to be used jointly by the Gold Chain and Opohongo Opo-hongo and the latter will eventually arrange matters so that all work can be handled through the Gold Chain shaft, the two mines having already been connected up on a couple of the levels. Just at this time the Opohongo is sinking a winze from what is the 300 level in the Gold Chain and the 380 level of the Opohongo, and according to reports from tho mine yesterday the entire bottom of the winze Is In rplendld ere, say6 the Rureka Reporter. Report-er. The mine continues to Improve and it is a very simple matfor to keep tho output up to the standard. |