12 HATCH; THE KOLAR GOLD-FIELD. 



Apart from the fact that the pay-ore occurs in limited sections 

 ( C( chutes ") separated by zones of barren ground, and that there are 

 occasional small branches or splits in the vein, the Champion lode 

 runs a fairly steady and uniform course through the Mysore, Champ- 

 ion Reef and Ooregum properties. North of the latter, however, the 

 lode begins to show signs of disturbances, which are either due to 

 faulting or to the separation of the vein into several parallel branches. 

 Thus the Nundydroog Company works two sections of lode, lying 

 about 300 feet apart : the main Champion lode extending from the 

 south boundary to about half-way through the property, where it 

 dies away to small stringers, and the so-called Kennedy's lode, 

 which is about 300 feet to the east, and worked only in the northern 

 section of the property. Whether this is a case of faulting or of 

 branching in the lode has not yet been determined. It may be 

 that Kennedy's lode is a continuation of a branch that splits off in 

 the Ooregum Mine and is there known as the East lode. 



In the Tank Block, development work has been confined to 

 Kennedy's lode, but in the Coromandel we again find developments 

 on two lodes separated by about 500 feet, that worked in the south- 

 ern portion of the property being supposed to be the continuation 

 of Kennedy's lode and that in the northern portion, the continuation 

 of the Champion lode. 



In Balaghat, the next property to the north, the easterly or 

 Kennedy's lode, although traceable at the surface has not been opened, 

 the main developments being on the Coromandel or supposed 

 Champion lode. But the problem is still further complicated by the 

 appearance of a third branch or off-shoot which is marked by a line of 

 old workings about 500 feet west of the Coromandel lode. This lode 

 is in course of development by levels driven from a new vertical shaft 

 (Tennant's) which cuts the vein at 285 feet. North of the Balaghat 

 none of the off-shoots of the Champion lode have as yet been proved 

 payable although trial pits have been sunk to test them on the Road 

 Block property ; but that company, and its neighbour the Nine Reefsj 

 are at present devoting themselves to an extensive trial of the more 

 westerly veins, the Oriental and West Balaghat lodes. 



