[Editor: This article, regarding the New Nil Desperandum mine (in Raywood, Vic.), was published in The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 4 May 1909.]
New Nil Desperandum, Raywood.
The importance of accurate plans.
Bendigo. — A survey of this mine has just been completed by Mr. W. H. Cundy, with a view to effecting a connection between the winze below the 245 feet level and the rise over the 364 feet level. The winze is down 82 feet, and the rise up 52 feet (vertical measurement). There is a distance of 76½ feet between the bottom of the winze and the middle of the intermediate level.
An error had made in consequence of a perpendicular band of slate on which the reef rested at 245 feet being taken as identical with a slate bar of similar appearance in the 384 feet crosscut. Actually, however, there are two distinct bodies. In bringing the survey and plans of the mine up to date several important features, chiefly connected with the slide system, were disclosed.
Mr. Cundy states these slides or disturbances have caused considerable doubt in the past, but when put down correctly on the plans, they provide valuable information as to the deposition of the quartz. For instance, the slide seen in the level just south of the south shaft is evidently the floor or bottom of the run of spurs which have lately been worked. The slide is seen again in the intermediate level above 384 feet, but at a point some 70 to 80 feet further east. All this shows the necessity for the slides, &c., being correctly recorded when the ground is being driven through.
He suggested that the board insist upon a correct account of the ground passed through being recorded on plans as the work progresses. He had made an approximate survey of another old level at 315 feet 8 inches, and in it there are several places showing promising looking reefs. These had evidently been worked in a small way by following each individual stone or spur. There is now, however, an opportunity to test this class of country in a large way.
The main object of the company at present will be to affect the connection south between the 245 feet and 384 feet levels. When this is completed the question of reopening the most southerly shaft should receive early consideration.
Source:
The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 4 May 1909, p. 7
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