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appear quite clear what amount of w 7 ater was encountered in the lower 
drive, but at present the water stands at between 50 and 60 feet from the 
sill of the shaft. 
It will be a great saving if this shaft on the Great Ballarat West 
mine can be used. Work was discontinued about nine years ago, and the 
timbers are supposed to be quite sound. The one point is to discover by 
baling whether there is any strong inflow from the bottom level. If the 
ground has swelled in the bottom level since it was filled with water, it 
may have completely closed up the drive and in this way dammed back 
the water. Should the result of baling show that there is little water coming 
in from the drives, then dams might be built in the drives, and the shaft 
could be sunk, say, to not less than 500 feet before opening out crosscuts 
east and west. 
On the plan of the mine on which the-shaft is, a reef known as the 
Emerald is shown. It runs to the east of the shaft, and, according to 
the sketch section, the shaft should cut the course of this reef at about 
600 feet in depth. Whether this reef would be cut or not, the work done 
would enable the structure of the rocks at this site to be made out, which 
could not otherwise be done, as the slates and sandstones are concealed below 
100 feet or more of basalt. The belt of country in which the proposed site is 
situated consists of favorable-looking beds, and from the upper portion of 
these beds the alluvial gutters were fed. In the same belt, but further to 
the north, and on the northern boundary of the Cemetery, Chamber’s 
Syndicate are opening out at a depth of 50 feet from the surface, and 
they have crushed some quartz that gave 15 dwt. of gold per ton. The 
quartz occurs as spurs through soft, white, slaty beds (pipeclay). The gold 
is coarse and of high quality, worth £4. 3s. per oz. 
The proposed site would test a tract of country that has not yet been 
prospected for quartz reefs and a tract from which rich alluvial gold was 
won. If this ground is opened up it would certainly furnish valuable 
data that could not otherwise be obtained. 
The nearest quartz mine to the south is the Kohinoor mine, about a 
mile distant. Should baling the water prove to be heavy, it would be 
better to sink another shaft close by than to have to pump perpetually from 
the reserves of water stored in the alluvial ground. 
For prospecting purposes I consider the site suggested the best that can 
be obtained, and that unless some work is done to explore this belt of 
eountrv, nothing more will ever be known of its value. But there is no well- 
defined line of reef to sink for, and whatever work is done will be in search 
of auriferous quartz that is not actuallv located ; the country rock is, how¬ 
ever, such that auriferous quartz may be expected to occur in it. 
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THE WO AH HAWP CENTRAL MINE, BALLARAT EAST. 
By W. Baragwanath. 
The Woah Hawp Central Company’s claim is situated at Ballarat East, 
southern extension. Work at the claim is confined to a line of fault which 
intersects the strata at a high angle. The strata dip easterly at from 6o° to 
8o°, while the fault dips westerly at an angle of 6o°. A rise has been 
put up on this fault about 100 feet and connected with a vertical 
air-shaft. About 130 feet below the surface a short drive north shows 
about 6 inches of white quartz on the fault plane. At the foot of the 
air-shaft the quartz on the fault appears to be about 1 foot wide. 
