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dees not exceed 200 feet. There appear to be some main folds correspond¬ 
ing with the New Chum, Hustlers’, and Garden Gully lines at Bendigo, 
with minor folds that correspond with the “sides lines” at Bendigo. 
Mining operations should be carried on as far as possible along the main 
folds. 
One main anticline is exposed behind the stable near the quartz mill 
of the Victoria Cornish mine, where the arch is clearly shown. It runs 
beneath the small magazines, and is exposed in a cutting to the west of 
the engine-shaft mullock heap. It runs through the mullock heap, 
and is exposed in the western side of a small gullv further to the 
east. It passes half a chain to the west of the old round brick 
stack, and in the deep gully to the east it is exposed on the eastern side, 
where a large mass of quartz projects some feet above the surface. Then 
it passes to the east of the shaft of the South Victoria Cornish mine, and 
eastward to the gate-house on the railway. On the eastern side of the rail¬ 
way it is covered up by basaltic rock. 
Lines of anticline, or “ centre-country, ” are very numerous, and well 
shown in many places. East of the public park, Wombat Creek is con¬ 
fined between narrow banks, and just below, in the creek bed, an anticline 
is well shown. Near this would be a favorable site for a shaft. Be¬ 
tween this site and the public park a large body of quartz is exposed, and, 
alongside, the quartz spurs have been worked at the surface. Another 
anticline is exposed here, and still another nearer the park, close to a small 
dam. 
From the appearance of these surface beds, and the horizon they occupy, 
as shown by the graptolites obtained here, it is fairlv certain that they are 
higher up in the series than the No. 1 zone at Bendigo, and that the prob¬ 
abilities are that, by working at greater depths the rocks will be found 
more productive of gold. 
A great deal of alluvial mining has been done at Daylesford, and 
many leads have been worked under the basalt. Rich returns were ob¬ 
tained from some of the workings, and, judging by their extent, it appears 
that a belt, of over three miles in width, of these Ordovician rocks, is 
auriferous. 
Quartz mining has been carried on from a very early stage of this 
gold-field, and with very profitable results in some cases. The Cornish 
group of mines, though only worked to a few hundred feet in depth, gave 
a heavy yield of gold, but mining languished, and became almost de¬ 
funct. Within the last three years, however, this industry has been 
revived, and some of the old mines are being worked in a spirited manner, 
and with excellent results. There is a very extensive area of country 
around Daylesford that offers great inducement for quartz mining, and 
all the aspects seem to indicate that, as depth is attained, the conditions 
improve for increased richness in gold of the quartz veins. 
Victoria Cornish Mine. 
In the Victoria Cornish mine, which is the Cornish mine revived, there 
are three transverse quartz lodes that appear to conform generally to the 
strike of the beds, but differ in dip, the lodes dipping west, 
while the beds dip east. These lodes fill fissures that are well repre¬ 
sented at Bendigo^ when faults of a certain class coincide with the bedding 
planes on the west side of a syncline, then cross the country in a direction 
opposite to the beds to the anticline, and then follow down between the 
bedding planes on the east side of the anticline. Whether the Daylesford 
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