24 HAYDEN AND HATCH ! GOLD-FIELDS OF WAWAD, 



Part II.— F. H. HATCH : the Alpha and Phcenix Mines in the 



South-East Wainad. 



As the result of a preliminary survey of the more important 

 quartz veins of the south and south-east Waina"d, made last year by 

 Mr. H. H. Hayden, 1 Officiating Deputy Superintendent of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of India, it was decided to submit two of the mines 

 that had been most opened up during the mining activity of the early 

 eighties to a detailed examination with a view to determining once 

 for all whether, with the improved appliances and perfected pro- 

 cesses of modern gold-recovery, there might be any chance of profit- 

 able gold-mining being carried on in this district. Mr. Hayden's 

 researches led him to the conclusion that the two properties most 

 suitable for such an examination were those known as the " Alpha " 

 and the " Phoenix" for the reasons : firstly, that extensive drives on 

 the course of the vein were known to exist in both of these mines, 

 so that it would be possible, if they were made accessible, to institute 

 a thorough sampling of the ore-bodies and thus to arrive at a fair 

 approximation of the average value and stoping width of the ore; 

 secondly, that these mines were credited by rumour with being 

 capable of better results than had been obtained when they were 

 formerly worked, if more efficient methods and better machinery 

 were to be used. 



These two mines having been selected it remained to render 

 them accessible for sampling, and in order to do this a considerable 



1 See General Report of the Geological Survey of India, 1899-1900, p. 53. 

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