VICTORIA.
I visited the mine to-day, the manager having just completed breaking down the quartz stripped. The portion of the lode nearest the month of the drive is a mere stringer in size, but bounded ~\. walls good enough to hold a twelve feet reef. In the extreme face the lode is four inches thick, and shows good minerals, though 1 have not seen any gold. lam of opinion that some fifty or sixty feet will require to be driven along the course of this formation before it will get larger. My reason for this is, that the end of the drive is under a small gully, which has a disorganising effect on the country underground, it being full of those irregularities seldom met with in solid ground. Under the cap of the spur better ground should be met with, and I am very much mistaken if the size of the lode will not also increase.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3596, 6 July 1880, Page 3
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155VICTORIA. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3596, 6 July 1880, Page 3
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