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The principal operations in wash-dirt in this mine have been 1,400 
feet to the south-east of where the main gutter appears to be. The wash- 
dirt in the eastern gutter is from 120 feet to 250 feet wide, and ranges in 
thickness from 3 inches to 18 inches. The quartz pebbles in the wash- 
dirt are of moderate size, and it appears to be an overflow branch from 
the main channel. The floor of the lead, so far worked at the New 
Havillah, consists of glacial conglomerate. 
The Charlotte Plains Mine. 
The shaft of this mine is about one mile north-east from the New 
Havillah shaft. In the western workings, which are 3,000 feet from the 
shaft, wash-dirt has been panelled that greatly resembles the eastern 
gutter wash in the New Havillah Mine; it is probably the continuation of 
the same eastern gutter, and it may be expected to run into the main 
gutter to the north-east of the ground panelled. 
Nearer the Charlotte Plains shaft, and 1,010 feet westerly from it, 
wash-dirt is now being panelled that is yielding 12 dwts. of gold per 
fathom (the manager states that 10 dwts: will pay all expenses), and the 
Held is improving to the north-west. The wash-dirt ranges up to 2 feet 
thick, and the quartz boulders in it are frequently 2 or 3 cwt. each, and 
some are half-a-ton in weight, all beautifully rounded and waterworn. 
The character of this wash-dirt is entirely different from that panelled in 
the western workings of this mine and from that worked in the eastern 
gutter of the New Havillah Mine, and it has all the appearance of being 
wash in the main gutter. In fact, this wash-dirt, though high up on the 
reef, appears to be the eastern edge of the wash in the main gutter. 
From the various bores and workings it also appears that the wash-dirt 
being panelled 1,010 feet west from the shaft is on the outside of a bend 
in the lead. The eastern gutter will probably run into the main gutter. 
This heavy wash, yielding an average of 12 dwts. of gold per fathom, 
is certainly on the outside of the bend, and it is to be anticipated that, 
as work is continued in a north-westerly direction, the yield will improve, 
for only the poorest portion of the wash can be expected where the ground 
is being panelled. Already wash-dirt has been proved over a width of 
about 400 feet, but the lead is likely to' be much wider at this part as 
there appears to be a great bend. The deeper gutter, and the thicker 
and richer wash-dirt are to be expected at and beyond the position of 
No. 1 bore. 
At 50 chains, nearly due north of No. 4 bore, Charlotte Plains Mine, 
in allotment 14 B3, Sec. 3, Eddington, the bedrock has been proved by 
boring to be 374.64 feet above sea-level, and 36.93 feet below the bed¬ 
rock level at No. 1 bore, Charlotte Plains Mine (411.57 feet). This 
appears an unusually heavy drop in the floor of the lead unless there is 
deeper ground near No. 1 bore, and this is to be expected, for the floor 
in the most north-eastern wash-dirt drive in the Charlotte Plains western 
workings is 410.7 feet above sea-level at 2,000 feet higher up the lead 
than No. 1 bore. 
As in the extreme north-western workings at the New Havillah Mine, 
so in these workings the water is coming in from the north-west workings 
of the Charlotte Plains Mine. 
The position in these two mines is that after stupendous efforts and 
an enormous expenditure, the water difficulty has been overcome and the 
ground drained so far that the reef washes have been, and are being, 
worked. Part of the wash has been nearly payable, and what is being 
panelled at the Charlotte Plains is reported as more than payable. From 
