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series is formed in faults of this class can only be determined when they 
are traced to centre-country or anticlines. It appears that when these 
lodes traversed certain beds the quartz was auriferous to a profitable ex¬ 
tent, but that when they traversed other beds the quartz was practically 
barren. The names of these three lodes from the eastward are:—The 
Queen, the Cornish and Colliers. As centre-country occurs about 200 
feet from the shaft at the 966 feet level, and the Cornish lode is being 
worked towards it, there should be no great difficulty in proving how the 
lode is influenced when centre-country is reached. The engine shaft is 
well placed as regards centre-country, if it makes eastward in depth, as. at 
Bendigo. The shaft is favorably situated also as regards pitch, for the 
pitch is southward, and therefore deeper beds will be cut at the present 
shaft with less sinking than would be cut at the south end of the lease. 
Besides the three transverse lodes in the Victoria Cornish mine there 
are also spurs. A body of these spurs, about 20 feet wide and n feet 
high, pitching southward with the beds, is now being worked, and is giving 
good returns. Coarse specks of gold are visible in these spurs. 
The country rock in which they have formed is slate and a coarse descrip¬ 
tion of slate approaching a fine sandstone in character. A 'fracture runs 
to the east from the channel of the Cornish lode, and cuts through the 
beds in a south-eastern direction. There has been some movement, for 
along this fissure a little clayey material (pug of the miners) is formed. 
The auriferous spurs are all east of this fissure, or slight fault, and 
this is the guide in keeping on the goid. Such bodies of spurs have been 
largely worked in this mine, and have proved very profitable. Extensive 
prospecting and extreme vigilance are necessary in such a mine to> make 
sure that such valuable spurry bodies are not missed. 
To help forward the mining industry at Daylesford it is very necessary 
that on the detailed geological sheets already published the direction and 
courses of the anticlines (centre-country), should be laid down. 
The mineral springs for which this district is famous are an asset that 
might be turned to better account. Those coming out in the bed of the 
creek below the large hotel building are in the Ordovician rocks, and one 
of them is on an anticline. 
To Mr. Field, general manager of the Victoria Cornish mine, and to 
Mr. Day, the mine manager, I am indebted for much courtesy and for 
facilities in examining that mine. 
[Report sent in igth April , 1905.] 
SOME GOLD MINES AT SOUTH KYNETON. 
(NO. 9 ON LOCALITY MAP.) 
By E. J. Dunn , F.G.S., Director , Geological Survey. 
Coliban Reef. 
About two and a half miles south of Kyneton, on the road side in 
private property, is the Coliban reef. Two shallow shafts have been 
sunk on it, and there are some surface trenches. The surface is strewn 
with quartz; soft sandstones and slates are exposed in the excavations. 
Several crushings are said to have been taken out, but no returns are 
available. This site deserves to be further prospected. 
