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where the highest point of the pitch occurs, that is to say, where the 
lowest beds are exposed at the surface. The theoretical ideal position 
for a shaft is where the pitch falls away from a point to both north and 
south, and where the beds dip awav from this point both to east and 
west, or, in fact, where what is known as a “ crown ” by the Bendigo 
miners exists. From such a point the beds dip away in all directions. 
\Report sent in 14..11.06.] 
THE NORFOLK REEF, KANGAROO FLAT. 
By H. S. Whitelaw. 
The workings on the Norfolk Reef are situated between the Thistle 
and Christmas anticlinal axial lines, ij miles south-east of Kangaroo 
Flat township. 
According to information given to me by the projectors of the enter¬ 
prise, the Norfolk Reef was first opened by a German party about the 
year 1876, when phenomenally rich quartz was found on the surface, and 
afterwards worked with highly payable results for hundreds of feet north 
and south, and to over a hundred feet in depth. The early history of 
the workings is somewhat obscure, and there is an absence of trustworthy 
statistics; but there is every reason to believe that up to the time the 
reef was secured by the present holders (Messrs. Buttrey) the crushings 
from it compared favorably with the shallow level returns from most of 
the well-established mines now working in the central portion of the 
Bendigo field. This remark is apparently borne out by the extensive 
workings on the lease, and by statements made to me by several old miners 
whom I have questioned and who have spent most of their lives in the 
locality. They speak of crushings as high as 60 ozs. to the ton. 
Fig. 34. 
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