160 tons from it, the amalgam from which weighed 600 ozs., which, in turn, yielded 114 ozs. of bullion worth £1 8s. per oz.
In
the locality arc eight or ten pan-grinders, and a tall chimney stack,
the remains of a plant erected by an English company years since.
Up
the rise, to the west, is the poppet-head gear of the Browning's Luck
Company, Mr. Thomas Cornelius is in charge. The shaft is being sunk,
and is now down about 790 feet. Levels have been opened at 500 and 600
feet, and it is intended to open another at 800 feet down, I believe.
As i'ar as could be seen during a short inspection, the lode system
here is associated with an areh in the corrugated strata. The dyke
material is present, and also the gold-slate, and it appears as if the
works at the 500-ft. level opened a lode, as it comes down on the
eastern side of an arch, similar to the occurrence noted at the West
Queensland mine. Great hopes are entertained of the value of the
formatison in the level to be opeued at 800 feet, and, as far as the
shortness of my inspection permits me to gauge things structural, in
regard to the question as to what part of the "favoured situation "'
on the lode system here the company lias happened on, I am inclined to
think that opening' works at the 800-ft. level, and lower, will bring
to light a longer extent of the golden part than lias been met with
higher. Altogether, there have been mined from the higher levels 9,708
tons of quartz, which have yielded 4,127oz. 4dwt. of gold. There is an
efficient winding, pumping, and crushing plant on the mine. The office
management of the Lord Nelson Company and of the Browning's Luck
Company is in the hands of Mr. F. P Burgess, Collins-street, Melbourne.
Over
the hill to the west, about half-a-mile distant, is the Bristol
Company's mine. Mr. H. B. Croydon is in charge. The top gear includes a
compact winding and crushing plant, and the shaft (sinking in progress)
is now down to about 600 feet. Two levels have been opened, one at 300
and the other at 400 feet. The lode system is, as usual, associated
with an arch in the corrugations, and the part the company is about to
test is on the western side of the areh, with the westerly underlay
noted at all points in the rocks of the Pyrenees mountain country. In
early times, the outcrops of the line furnished yields varying between
ounces and pennyweights, and at one point works were taken to a depth
of 186 feet on trails which pointed to the probable richness stored at
lower depths on this main line of channel. This group) of lodes
received a lot of attention from early miners along its line to the
north for about three-quarters of a mile, although I noticed that its
southern portion has received no sampling. In the 400-ft. level are
.seen the effects of a local twist strain to the country, which led the
manager to suppose that further sinking was necessary to enable
cross-cuts to locate a favoured part of the lode. Accordingly the
shaft was sunk to its present depth of 600 feet. Whether or not this
depth is sufficient for a successful issue remains to be seen, but the
management is Avorking on sound lines, and the cross-cutting works
about to be executed may achieve the desired results ; if not, the
features revealed ought to enable the management to locate the position
of the works as regards their relation to the favoured part. So far the
yields from the higher levels total about 110 ozs. of gold from about
400 tons of quartz, and this is made up of crushings of from 22 dwts.
to the ton to about 1 dwt. to the ton. Mr. Prince Cameron, Equitable
Building, Collins-street, Melbourne, is legal manager.
Going
north, and down the range, the old works of an early concern, known as
the Bendigo, are reached; and here, as at the Bristol area, the dyke
material shows plentifully. It appears that in early times gold was
found in the wash-dirt of a gully passing nearly along the outcrops of
