At Ballarat East the relations of the productive zones to the anti¬ 
clines have been worked out most successfully, and it is now possible, in 
the surveyed portions, to decide upon the best way of searching for fur¬ 
ther productive country. In the First Chance mine, Mr. Baragwanath 
has been able to indicate in which direction mining should be carried on, 
and the actual mining results have fully justified his forecasts. An ex¬ 
cellent example of a typical saddle reef, with characteristic centre country, 
has been exposed in No. 5 level, and the ground to the east of this has 
been profitably worked, and much gold taken from the spurs. A con¬ 
siderable extent of favorable country, lying east of the anticline, awaits 
development in this mine. 
Both east and west of the belt of country already worked so profitably 
at Ballarat East there are tracts of untouched but promising country 
that stretch away for many miles and that deserve to be vigorously explored. 
Northward from Black Hill to Creswick, the northern extension of the 
phenomenally rich auriferous lodes has still to be traced. Southward 
from present workings there is also a great field for prospecting. 
With the knowledge of the structure of the rocks on this field and 
the manner in which gold is distributed so far acquired through the 
Survey, the outlook for gold-mining has greatly expanded and the gold 
resources in reserve have become more apparent. 
Altogether the result of the work so far accomplished points to the 
existence of tracts of country that are probably auriferous and even more 
extensive than the areas that have so far been worked. By means of the 
data Mr. Baragwanath has accumulated, most valuable and reliable 
guidance can be given in all future mining operations, and the present 
feeling of distrust in some of the centres of mining enterprises may be 
dissipated. There is ample room on this field for a large expansion of 
the industry. 
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PROSPECTING OPERATIONS NEAR THE CEMETERY, 
BALLARAT. 
By E. J. Dumz, E.G.S., late Director , Geological Survey. 
When the alluvial mining was at its height, gutters were worked and 
rich returns in gold obtained a little south of the cemetery, at the inter¬ 
section of Hotham and Mills streets. There is half an acre of ground 
belonging to the syndicate, with a shaft upon it, and there is from J to 
1 acre more adjacent, which is private land but is not built upon, and 
which might be arranged for. In fact, except at this site, the ground all 
about is thickly built over. The site is in an area that has not, so far, 
been prospected for reefs. 
There is bed-rock (Ordovician slates and sandstones) cropping out at 
the cemetery, and in sinking graves there richly auriferous quartz has been 
obtained. This bed-rock dips underfoot, going southward towards the 
proposed site, and at the site the shaft disclosed in the section 100 feet of 
basalt, then a few feet of Tertiary clay, and below that slates and sand¬ 
stones in a decomposed condition (pipeclay in part). 
The shaft is 180 feet deep, and two levels have been driven from it, 
one at 140 feet in a northerly direction; this was extended until it broke 
into the alluvial gutter. At 175 feet another level was extended in a 
north-easterly direction until the gutter was driven into. It does not 
