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A line of five bores along the road marked E.F. on the attached plan 
should prove the deep ground. A few chains to the west the ground rises 
50 feet, and the bores would probably be near the line of contact of the 
flow of basalt from Mount Helen with the more extensive flow from Mount 
Warrenheip. 
[Report sent in i6.n.oj.'\ 
THE DAYLESFORD GOLD MINE. 
By IF. Baragwanath. 
At the time of my. survey of the Daylesford Gold Mine, work at the 
lower levels was suspended, and operations were confined to the upper 
or 303-ft. level. At this level, a drive upwards of 1,200 feet in length 
has been put in to the south. This drive for its entire length follows along 
a well-defined fault line with a westerly dip. Numerous spurs are asso¬ 
ciated with this fault, which in places assumes the form of a reef with 
one well-defined wall. A number of easterly cross-cuts were made, but 
nothing of any value was met with. To the east of this main fault line, 
another, aind apparently a parallel line, has been driven on north and 
south from the cross-cut. 
Northward along tne level the drive follows the main fault line for 
a distance of over 600 feet. Numerous spurs with a westerly dip cut 
on to the fault line, and these have proved payable in places. 
At the time of this survey, a spur from 18 inches up to 30 inches in 
width, and dipping 45 0 to the west, was being opened up in the northern 
end of the level. 
In tnis level centre country shows at the shaft, but nothing has been 
done to prove whether there are any bodies of quartz along the extension 
ol this axial line. 
A cross-cut to the west of the shaft passed through strata dipping west 
for a distance of over too feet. 
At the bottom level, the western cross-cut at 76 feet passed through 
a small vein of laminated quartz, which occurs along a fault line, and is 
from 6 to 8 inches wide. This vein also forms an eastern leg. At 
80 feet from the shaft there is centre countrv. and at 98 feet a drive 
was put to the north for a distance of 90 feet along two well-defined legs, 
each carrying from 6 to 12 inches of nicely laminated quartz. Faulting 
appears to have taken place along these legs, one of which may prove to 
be the downward extension of the fault line driven on at the 303-^. 
level. 
At the end of the north drive, along the west leg, a short eastern cross¬ 
cut, driven to cut the eastern leg, met with a large bodv of quartz in the 
floor of the level. This appears to be the cap of a saddle reef, and a 
winze was sunK on it, but at the time of my survey this was full of water, 
and nothing could be ascertained as to the extent of the reef. 
Further work on the centre countrv below this level is urgentlv re¬ 
quired before anything in the way of permanency can be hoped for. The 
spurs in the eastern country, from which payable yields have from time 
to time been obtained, are irregular and of limited extent. The sinking 
of a centre country winze below the level would develop this portion of 
me mine. 
A long cross-cut to the west passed through two dykes, one at 
120 feet and the other at 312 feet from the shaft. At 400 feet there 
is a synclinal fold, and the country at this point is broken by the inter¬ 
section of a dyke along a cross-course. Then, as far as the face at 
516 feet, the strata dipped easterly. 
