DEEP MINES OF BENDIGO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2388, 29 October 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

DEEP MINES OF BENDIGO.

The success of the deep reefs of Bendigo, concerning which so many people were dubious, seems now to be assured, for several mines on the three principal lines of reef are profitably engaged working lodes at very deep levels. Tlie cutting of the deep reef yet touched on that goldfield has lately taken place. The new discovery is in the Victory and Pandora mine, situated on the Harden Cully line (the central main line), and jnat to the north of that famous mine, the Harden Cully United, from which tons of gold have been taken, and which has paid close up to a million sterling in dividends. The find in the Victory and Pandora is in the 2000 ft. crosscut 110 ft east of the shaft. The stone is only -fin thick where it was cut, and becomes thinner going downwards, but will probably be found larger on rising. It is of a nice seamy nature, underlying west, and is supposed to be a western leg. The Victory and Pandora is the deepest mine at Sandhurst, and, with one exception, the deepest in Australia. The exception is the Magdala, at Stawell. The Victory and Pandora shaft is down over 2100 ft from the surface. The other mines in Bendigo with shafts below 1000 ft arc: — Landsell’s An. 10s' 2011 ft, and at the (Irnat Kxtended Hustler’s 2020 ft. The North Old Chum, and New Chum Victoria, both have shafts verging on 2000 ft in depth, and there are a great number of other shafts, 1800 ft and 000 ft deep. The finding of gold-bear-ing stone at such levels justifies the belief that gold will continue to he found so long as the silurian formation exists, and shows that there is practically no limit to the depth at which mining may be profitably carried on.