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At the 615-ft. level a cross-cut is driven in a N.E. direction 337 feet to 
the foot-wall of the “ leg.” The lode is about 5 feet thick, of mixed 
quartz and country rock, but no gold. From the cross-cut the level was 
extended 180 feet S.E. Some quartz exists the whole length of the level, 
and a little gold is said to have been got near the end of the level. At the 
end the mixed quartz and country rock is 5 feet thick. 
At the 920-ft. ievel the N.W. level is driven for a length of 600 feet. 
At 400 feet from the shaft a winze connects this level with the Magdala 
workings which are 400 feet below the 920-ft. level. The 920-ft. level 
was driven along the channel of the lode and no quartz was met with for 
350 feet from the shaft. Then quartz 5 feet thick was cut. This is 
portion of the same leg as is found in the 615-ft. level. A stope was 
carried up 20 feet above the ievel and the quartz is 5 feet thick on top. 
Down the winze connecting with the Magdala workings at 230 feet 
below the 920-ft. level, a level was driven N.W. for 100 feet; the quartz 
is reported to have been payable and 12 feet thick. Stopes were taken up 
to within 115 feet of the 920-ft. level and N.W. to the Magdala boundary. 
Above the 920-ft. level the lode is stopecl up for 80 feet. This rise dips to 
the S.W. at 50 deg. At the top of the rise the leef has been stoped in a 
N.W. direction for about 150 feet. This reef would average quite to feet 
in thickness. 
In this mine a great deal of work remains to be done to prospect it. 
The level 80 feet above the 920-ft. level should be continued N.W. along 
the lode channel with the object of tracing the saddle reef, and to 
the N.E. leg, to determine whether it is represented by a quartz lode, 
and if so, whether it is payable. Then work is required to prove the 
presence of the Magdala reef in this mine. It would be found at a higher 
level than in the Magdala mine, as the pitch is N.W. The breaking out 
and crushing of the low grade ore in sight would not help this property. 
What is required is sufficient capital to prospect it for the N.E. leg of the 
Scotchman’s reef, for the Magdala reef, and for any others that may exist 
lower down. A proper geological survey of this and adjacent properties is 
much needed to render quite plain the relations of the quartz bodies to 
each other and the proper direction in which prospecting should be carried 
out. The total depth of the shaft is 1,030 feet. 
The Three Jacks Mine. 
The Three Jacks mine is situate about i mile to the N.W. of Stawell 
and is the most westerly of the Stawell mines. The shaft is 358 feet deep. 
A cross-cut is driven N.E. 128 feet to the footwall of the lode which is 
9 feet wide. Along the level a drive along the lode has been extended 
150 feet in a direction S. 20 deg. E. The lode dips W. 20 deg. S. at 
46 deg. The lode runs with the country and is a true “ leg.” 
At the 300-ft. level a cross-cut is driven 160 feet to the lode. 
From the bottom level 470 tons of lode material yielded 147 ozs. 
8 dwts. 14 grs. of gold. Concentrates gave 6 ozs. 7 dwts. of gold per ton, 
and the tailings yielded 3 dwts. 14 grs. per ton. 
This “leg ” that is being worked in the Three Jacks mine is considered 
to be the same that was worked in the Newington mine further eastward, 
and in the mines that worked the Cross reef. It is probably the Cross reef, 
and if so, the Scotchman’s reef and the Magdala reef should be found lower 
down, though without a survey the depth could not be stated. Probably 
these reefs would be a very great depth from the surface unless they have 
been thrown upwards by N.W. faults as is shown to be the case along the 
course of the anticline easterly from Big Hill. 
