90 
years ago worked a piece of alluvial ground under the basalt southward‘from 
-Stony Creek, and got good returns; but as they were driving down the 
course of the lead they lost their levels, and could not cope with the 
water. This is doubtless the direction in which Morrisons lead escapes, 
•and were it not that its continuation is through private property, I should 
recommend vigorous boring operations. 
The source of the well-rounded quartz gravel that was profitably worked 
at Morrisons has not yet been traced. It is doubtless to the north, and 
a lead should exist between Mount Wallace and the Ordovician rocks to 
the west. This tract of country should also be bored, but it is private 
property. 
Beneath the tableland at Morrisons a great width of auriferous gravel 
is found, and should a richer run be discovered many men could be em¬ 
ployed. While the country is open there is room enough for miners to 
make homes for themselves, but if it be cut up and sold or leased there 
will be no room for them. Both at Morrisons and at Elaine an expansion 
in mining may take place, and as the land is only suitable for grazing,, 
and the grass is now all duly consumed each year, there would be nothing 
gained by selling or otherwise alienating it, while such action would tend 
to hamper any expansion of mining, for which the tract in question is 
especially suited. 
If a north and south line be drawn through the eastern boundary of the 
Race-course and Recreation Reserve, the richer belt of auriferous country 
lies to the west of it. I would, therefore,, suggest that all the land to 
the west of that line.be left as it is at present, for within that area indi¬ 
vidual miners can make a living, and occasionally obtain rich returns. 
Within this western tract there is a rich gold-field awaiting development, 
and one that is sure to be of great permanency. 
If the timber be strictly preserved, the land to the east might be let 
for grazing purposes under section 105, Land Act 1901, without injuriously 
affecting mining interests. 
[.Re fort sent in 20th Afrit, iqo6.~\ 
THE VICTORIA QUARTZ MINE, BENDIGO. 
By E. /. Dunn, F.G.S., Director, Geological Survey . 
The Victoria Quartz mine is situated on the New Chum line of fold. 
The shaft is now 4,025 feet deep, and it is to be sunk still deeper. The 
centre-country winze, sunk further to the east, about 240 feet from the shaft, 
has reached the depth of 4,154 feet. The rocks are slate and standstone, 
showing much iron sulphide. The dip of the rocks is W. at 65 deg.; the 
pitch is 20 deg. to the N. There is no indication to the eve that the rocks 
have been metamorphosed, but slices are being prepared to test the matter 
by the microscope.* 
The cross-cut at 4,025 feet is being driven eastward, and is now 85 feet 
in length. At 142 feet along it, thet cross-cut extended westward from the 
winze for 100 feet at the same level, will be reached. The centre-country 
winze is sunk 129 feet lower than the shaft and the bottom of it is 4,154 
feet from the surface. Centre-country lies between the winze and the 
shaft. 
A specimen from 4,2?7 feet examined microscopically showed no more alteration than the rocks from 
higher levels described in Records, Geol. Surv., Viet., Vol. I., Pt. 4, p. 260.—D. J. M. 
