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A rise was put up 145 feet, but levels 3 and 4 were not connected 
Payable stone was left in the stapes below No. 3 level. The reef below 
these stapes should be further prospected as the shoot may go down south 
of the rise from No. 4 level. This prospecting could best be carried out 
by making a connexion between the winze from No. 3 and the rise from 
No. 4 level. 
No. 5 level is the continuation of the lower Mons Meg adit. It cuts 
the Guerdon line at a depth of 500 feet. A shoot about 90 feet long has 
been worked between levels 4 and 5. This shoot was worked by the New 
Options Company. The stone was crushed with stone from other mines 
and records of the gold won are not obtainable. 
A winze was sunk below the No. 5 level but no- stoping was done. 
In order to work the Guerdon reef below the No. 5 level a crosscut is now 
being put out east from the bottom Mons Meg adit. This adit is 280 ft. 
6 in. below the Lower Mons Meg level. It is driven from a gully 1,500 feet 
north of the Mons Meg reef. The adit was put in to work the New Tiddle 
Dee reef; the drive south is on this reef for a distance of 300 feet where 
the reef is cut off by a crosscourse. There are extensive workings to the 
north at this level. These workings were not examined, but from an 
inspection of the mine plans it seems probable that the crosscourse has cut 
off a shoot on the old Tiddle Dee lode further east. If this is the case 
the shoot could be picked up again on the south side of the crosscourse. 
The drive extends south a total distance of 1,903 feet. The Mons Meg 
reef has been stoped from the surface to- 10 feet below this level as 
described above. 
In order to cut the Guerdon shoot worked between levels 4 and 5, 
a crosscut east is now being driven from a point 430 feet north from the 
face of the drive. If this crosscut is driven with a bearing E. 32 deg. N. 
it will cut the reef at about 415 feet, 260 feet below No. 5 level, giving 
280 feet of backs on the underlay of the reef. 
The shoot appears to be pitching north. If the reef is not payable 
when cut, driving north on the line is advisable. 
The plans and sections of this mine will be published later. 
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The United Miners’ Mine, Harrietville. 
The United Miners’ reef was one of the earliest worked in the Harriet¬ 
ville district; it is situated on the spur between the east and west branches 
of the Ovens River, 2f miles south of Harrietville. 
The outcrop of the reef crossing the Harrietville-Omeo road can be 
traced on the surface for a distance of 500 feet. The strike of the reef 
is N. 42 deg. W., and the dip 80 deg. E. To the south, the reef inter¬ 
sects a diorite dyke running nearly north and south and dipping to the 
west. 
The reef cuts through the dyke and runs a few feet into the country 
to the south. Two> shoots have been worked to the surface on this reef, 
one 90 feet long, just to the north of the dyke, and the second 25 feet 
long, 250 feet further north. This shoot has been worked for a length 
of about 300 feet at the No. 2 level. 
