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THE SCOTCHMAN MINE, BRIGHT, AND THE LONDON REEF, 
BCTFFALO. 
By J. P. Z. Kenny. 
The Scotchman Mine, Robert’s Creek, Bright. 
The Scotchman mine lies about 5 miles to the east of Bright on the 
spur between Robert’s Creek, a tributary of the Ovens, and the head waters 
of the Kiewa River. This reef, with other workings to the north, marks 
a separate belt of auriferous country east of the main belt extending from 
Harrietville to Bright. About a mile .south of the Scotchman, at the 
Queen of the Hills’ workings, good stone is being obtained from a reef 
which is probably on the same line. 
At the Scotchman workings the reef on the surface is about a foot 
wide; strike W. 37 deg. N., dip 69 deg. E. A shaft has been sunk on the 
reef to a depth of 55. feet. At 18 feet in the shaft the reef was cut off by 
a vertical fault. The shaft was continued and the reef picked up again, 
the throw of the fault being 15 feet. The stone obtained in sinking the 
shaft is said to be payable, but the work done is not sufficient to determine 
the length of the shoot, and up to the present there has not been a trial 
crushing. About 200 feet north-west of the shaft an adit has been put in 
to' cut the reef at a depth of 53 feet below the bottom of the shaft. At 
20 feet from the mouth, the adit cut the fault showing in the shaft. 
Beyond the fault line 15 feet of spurry country carrying a little gold was 
passed through. At 95 feet the adit cut the Scotchman line, the reef being 
5 feet wide. From this point a drive should have been put in south along 
the line. The adit was continued for no feet beyond the reef, and then 
a drive south cut the reef again 35 feet south-vest of the shaft. The reef 
here carries a little gold, and can now be tested bv driving both ways from 
the adit level. The shoot of stone worked in the shaft will probably be 
found north of the point where the drive cuts the reef. The enclosing 
country rock consists of thin bedded slate and sandstone dipping west. 
The strike of the reef is the same as that of the enclosing beds, but as it 
dips east it cuts across them. 
[.Report sent in u.6.oj.\ 
London Reef, Keating’s Creek, Buffalo. 
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The London reef lies to the west of the Buckland River in the basin of 
Keating’s Creek, 3 miles south-west of Porepunkah, and about a mile east 
of the Buffalo granite. Three reef-outcrops show on the surface, and the 
middle reef has been worked with payable results. Surface adits have 
been put in on the two other outcrops and no gold obtained. The strike 
of the middle reef is W. 37 deg. N., dip 75 deg. E. The country rock 
dips W. 65 deg., so that the reef cuts across the strata. A shaft has been 
sunk to a depth of 65 feet on the underlay. The shoot of stone is 30 feet 
long on the surface, and is cut off by a north and south fault dipping W. 
50 deg. This fault can be seen in the shaft at a depth of 40 feet; below 
this point no gold has been obtained. 
Tne shaft is sunk on the reef below the fault, and from the bottom of 
the shaft a drive south has been put in 42 feet without picking up the 
shoot. A rise from the south end of the drive at the bottom of the shaft 
would test the reef below the shoot which has been worked. 
The London reef was discovered and worked by Mr. John Butler about 
30 years ago. Rich stone was obtained from the shoot worked; about 
90 tons of stone were crushed for yields ranging from 3 to' 5 oz. per ton. 
[.Report sent in 27.5.07.] 
