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In the winze, 60 ft. south of the main cross-cut, the footwall of the 
lode was at the west side of the sill, but at a depth of 20 ft. it was 
14 ft. to the east. At this latter point the stone was disturbed and the 
quality was not as good as in the main level. 
JSTorth of the cross-cut the east dipping formation was followed for 
35 ft., the stone becoming smaller as driven on. The strata containing 
this stone dip to the east at 75°. At 35 ft. north of the cross-cut a 
laminated lode 6 in. to 8 in. wide and striking 20° north of west was 
located in the cross-course. This stone was poor, and the lode was very 
small when picked up on the north side of the cross-course. A cross¬ 
cut at this point is now being driven, and at 70 ft. from the north drive 
is still in clean strata dipping east 75°. At the 475 ft., the deepest 
level, a cross-cut has been put in east for 106 ft. A few quartz spurs 
occurred at 20 ft. and 60 ft. from the shaft, but they were of no value. 
The strata dip east at 75°. Two small cross-courses show at this 
level, one in the plat being identical with that exposed at 5 ft. south 
of the cross-cut at the 375-ft. level. ISTo driving has yet been done at 
this level. 
To summarize the position of the mine. Gold-bearing quartz has 
been located in four distinct formations— 
(a) In the original prospectors’ shallow workings. 
(h) In the spur or flat vein at 25 ft. east of the shaft at the 
200 ft. level. 
(c) In the large, nearly-vertical lode 60 ft. east of the shaft at 
the 275 ft. level, and which carried gold for 140 ft. in length and 
over 70 ft. in height. 
(d) In the east dipping formation 40 ft. east of the shaft at the 
375 ft. level. 
No connexions between these formations can be established. The ore 
bodies were irregular and not continuous, and their values are likewise 
irregular and of low value. The lodes all occur in east dipping strata, 
the shaft having been sunk apparently in an anticlinal fold. What 
appears to be a more permanent lode formation was cut in the east 
cross-cut at the 200-ft. level at 84 ft. from the shaft, and also in a 
mullock rise from the stopes below, but it was not located in the other 
cross-cuts from the shaft. This formation consists of a graphitic track 
with 8 in. of crushed mineralised quartz and strata. The faults 
(slides), while apparently cutting off the lodes, may yet be found not to 
have such an effect, as the lode bodies may be proved to end on 
them. The occurrence of quartz in the northern cross-course at the 
375 ft. level is known in the vicinity, being found in the Jubilee, East 
Jubilee, and Birthday New Eind Mines, but in these gold values w^ere 
obtained from the stone. 
Future operations must be confined to development and prospecting. 
The block of quartz proved above the 375 ft. level south can be worked 
above the fault, while the continuation of the south level should prove 
the fault to reach closer to that level, which would result in the lode 
formation, if it continues, being the more accessible. A winze should be 
sunk in the south drive near the face of the 375-ft. level, to prove the 
lode now exposed under the west dipping‘fault. This work should be 
completed before prospecting is carried out ^at the 475 ft. level, as 
any prospecting at that level wmuld be purely experimental. The 
extension east of the cross-cut may be the most likely source of develop¬ 
ment. 
