On the plan the sites of the main shafts are shown as near as was possible 
to locate them. The surface features and contour are also indicated, and 
the course of the deep leads at their inlet is given. It will be noticed that 
these lie considerably above the level of the present creek. A small patch 
of alluvial was recently worked in the Creswick Creek west of the Port Phillip. 
It is said that the northward extension of this was left unworked on account 
of heavy water. 
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FORRESTER’S MINE, SMEATON. 
By IF. Baragwanath, Senior Field Geologist. 
Forrester’s mine is located in the southern portion of the Smeaton Hill 
P.R., parish of Smeaton, about 2 miles southerly from Mount Kooroocheang. 
In the vicinity of the mine a small area of Ordovician bedrock occurs, entirely 
surrounded by basaltic and newer deposits, beneath which deep leads of 
payable character have been worked. This refers more particularly to the 
north and east of the present shaft. 
Forrester and party, supported by a local syndicate, have been at work 
for the past twelve months in the neighbourhood. From a shaft some distance 
west of the present one auriferous quartz was obtained, but not in sufficient 
quantity to pay expenses. Some months ago work at the present site, which 
is about 150 feet north of the old Kooroocheang company’s shaft, was begun. 
The shaft is sunk 65 feet, and at that depth cross-cuts east 97 feet and west 
70 feet were driven. The strata passed through, where visible, consist of 
slightly altered slates. At 25 feet east of the shaft a spur on a fault dipping 
about 45° west was driven on north 50 feet and south 25 feet. At 15 feet 
north of the cross-cut a rise above the fault exposes two parallel vertical 
makes of stone 3 feet apart, each averaging about 6 inches in width ; this 
rise is up 19 feet. From the drive north of this rise a trial crushing of 8 tons 
of stone treated at Creswick yielded 8J dwt. of gold per ton. From the cross¬ 
cut at the intersection of a spur a winze has been sunk to 17 feet. Two well- 
defined vertical formations show throughout the depth of the winze, the 
western averaging 12 inches and the eastern 6 inches, with cross-spurs and 
strata betw r een. At 3 feet below the main level a cross-spur connects the 
two formations. This spur has given highly payable dish prospects. The 
verticals in the bottom of the winze yielded a payable prospect when sampled 
during this visit. 
As to the future working, the double handling of stone from the winze 
will prove costly. It is therefore advisable to sink the shaft to a depth of, 
say, 90 or 100 feet, and open out a cross-cut east at that depth, where, driving 
on the lode or verticals will prove the value away from the influence of the 
slide or fault which has disturbed the lode at the 65 feet level. 
While this work is in progress, a trial crushing might be stoped underfoot 
in the north drive from the winze already sunk. This should yield a margin 
of profit after paying all expenses. 
At 45 feet from the surface a small cut has been put in west, and a drive 
opened on a spur which is of low value. 
The locality possesses more than ordinary interest from the fact that rich 
alluvial has been traced to the surface in the vicinity, and also that fossils 
