Frenchman's Reef Mine

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In the nine years between 1906 and 1916 from one vertical and six flatmakes, this company, chiefly from the flatmakes, crushed 30,848 tons of quartz for a yield of 10,580 ox., an average per ton of 6dwt, 21 gr., distributing out of the proceeds 6,400 pounds in dividends. ... Operations commenced on 13th December, 1906, by cutting down an old shaft started at 30 feet west of Frenchman's Reef, a vertical that outcrops at 40 feet west of a syncline 380 feet east of the Hepburn Springs anticline which, the survey indicates, is the Cornish fold from the lodes on the east-dipping beds flanking which the Cornish group of mines to the southward extracted such large stones of wealth over a period of some 30 years. Frenchman's reef cannot be traced throughout the stretch of country intervening between this mine and Cornish Hill, but by disconnected outcrops it is judged to be either the Crown or the Cornish lode

Notes

Flat makes are large bodies of quartz, more or less horizontal laterally, but with longitudinal pitch to the north to make off from the "verticals."

Further Reading

Whitelaw, H.S. and Baragwanath, W., The Daylesford Gold-Field Bulletin No. 42, Geological Survey of Victoria, 1923.

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--C.K.Gervasoni 13:26, 25 July 2013 (EST)