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The clay is semi-plastic. The tests indicate that the material, if 
properly treated and existing in sufficient quantity, would be of value 
for the manufacture of pottery and china ware, The washed material 
represents very pure china clay, with very little iron. The shrinkage 
is high. 
Further tests have been made by compounding the washed material 
with felspar; the tiles in this case burned well and evenly. Experiments 
made by applying hard and soft glazes, showed that the clay takes the 
glaze well, and is suitable for the manufacture of tiles and other glazed 
ware. ISTo analyses were made.” 
[8.2.13.] 
SOME MlhTES AT SCAESDALE. 
By W. Baragwanath, Senior Field Geologist. 
The Scarsdale Mine^ Scaesdale. 
The Scarsdale mine is situated on the western side of the Ballarat- 
Scarsdale railway line, within a quarter of a mile of the railway 
station. 
While prospecting in 1912, Messrs. Knight and Williamson located 
auriferous quartz within a few inches of the grass roots. The subsequent 
workings of the prospectors revealed a small gold-bearing spur, asso¬ 
ciated with a large mass of leaders which was of low grade, and this 
was followed to a depth of 55 ft. on its southerly pitch. Later a lease 
was secured, and the Scarsdale Company floated. In 1913 the sinking 
of a main shaft was decided on, the deepest shaft of the prospectors 
then being 70 ft., at which depth no payable stone had been located. 
The main shaft was sunk to a depth of 200 ft., proving one small 
auriferous vein at 70 ft. At 170 ft. quartz leaders dipping east were 
found, vhich continued to near the plat at the 200 ft. level before pass¬ 
ing out. 
200 ft. Level .—In the east cross-cut at the 200 ft. level a gold-bearing 
vein dipping east was cut at 22 ft. from the shaft. From this vein a 
crushing of 50 tons averaged 12 dwt. to the ton. Shaft sinking was 
then continued, and a cross-cut was opened out east at 275 ft., to prove 
the downward continuation of the flat vein. At 60 ft. from the shaft a 
lode formation 8 ft. in width was met, carrying payable values. Driving 
north and south on this lode proved a length of 140 ft., averaging 8 ft. 
in width and assaying 9 dwt. to the ton. A bulk crushing from this 
lode yielded 8^ dwt. to the ton. The lode formation had a dip to the 
west averaging 70° to 85°, and north from the cross-cut it con¬ 
tinued payable up to a cross-course at 45 ft. This cross-course heaves 
the lode 25 ft. to the west, but where again picked up the quartz was 
poor. Beyond the cross-course a full face of quartz was followed for 
100 ft. in the drive. At 10 ft. from the cross-course a rise was put up 
meeting a roll in the lode at 15 ft., above which payable stone was risen 
on for 60 ft. A fault (the slide) was cut in the floor of this level 
where the lode was picked up north of the cross-course; this fault 
pitches to the south and rises to the north, passing over the back of the 
drive at 50 ft. from the cross-course. A flat vein or spur of low grade, 
dipping east into the lode, was located over the fault. 
