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DISCOVERIES OF GOLD AT BALAARAT [BALLARAT]
 
This great gold field still maintains its fame the discovery of rich deposits of gold still continues to astonish the world. The minings connected with Balaarat [Ballarat] are. Canadian gully. the grand pits, Jewellers shops, Winters Flat, The Lagoon, Eureka, Black Hill, Yuilles Flat, Wardy Yallock diggings, Prince Regents gully, German Gully, Creswick Creek, Bunninyong.
At Balaarat [Ballarat] it requires a considerable command of money to enable the miner to bottom
a claim which few are prepared with, and on that account this field has become to individuals a serious undertaking -
Companys [Companies] are now formed among the miners to enable them to sink a shaft which to reach the bed rock in some instances occupies three months when once there the yield of gold richly compensating for the outlay.

                  YUILLES FLAT
At these diggings some of the claims are sunk to from 18 to 20 feet deep. In some claims the soil is deep alternate clay & loam resting occasionally upon a quartz bed super-imposed on a gravelly stratum: or white sand apparently the drift of decomposed quartz lying on pipe clay.  Some of the  claims have yielded fifteen ounces per day and success is pretty fairly distributed.

         WARDY YALLOCK DIGGINGS
These diggings are shallow the gold nuggety which is a new feature in the gold in the locality that which had been got heretofore being fine laminated, and much dispersed.  These diggings are situated on Smythes Creek about fifteen miles to the westward of Balaarat [Ballarat]
 
GERMAN GULLY.
At these diggings a shaft was sunk through slate ninety feet the party came upon gold in very great abundance.  In one day they took out of this claim two hundred & two pounds weight of the precious metal. The party was occupied three months in sinking this shaft which turned out so fortunate to them.
 
THE GRAVEL PITS.
At the gravel the stuff is of the unheard of thickness of thirteen feet and it is an advantageous peculiarity of this field that the vein runs in a straight line.  There is a Surfacing field
at the back of the Canadian gully, as at the Lagoon Surfacing is still practised.  The attention
of experienced diggers have been directed to the courses of Several veins remarkable for richness, they nearly all lead to the extensions flats stretching eight miles in length from Winters flat to
Eureka and numerous Claims were marked out there.  One hole at the Gravel Pits Yielded three thousand two hundred & fifty ounces of gold in one week.

 

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