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1902: Rocky Lead District, Daylesford - Three miles to the north of the White Light area, over a hill
of basalt is the shaft of the Lady Parker Co. Here a 13-head crushing mill was doing work at
the date of my visit and a steam winch did the hauling from a shaft 200ft deep ... This is the
most northern mine in the area under notice, there being one mine, known as Dibden's, on a
rich formation a mile or so further to the north, not being worked. 666
1903: Generally speaking, both quartz and alluvial mining in this division have been dull during the
past year; but, owing to ground formerly held, without being worked, for many years, by the
North Cornish Company, having been acquired by an English Company, which has
commenced work under the name of the Victoria Cornish Co. Ltd ... Old mining and business
residents of Daylesford appear to be very sanguine as to the success of this venture, and
express their faith in again seeing Daylesford figure as a real live mining town. 667
1903: The Glenmona G. M. Co. ... crushed 5,305 tons for 1,212 oz. The company is furnished with a
complete winding and crushing plant. 668
1903: Dry Diggings Co. ... in hands of tributers ... a very good 10-head crushing plant is erected on
this company's lease. There is also a very small winding plant. 669
1903: Bruce's No. 1 North G. M. Co. (on Bruce's line of reefs) has done a considerable amount of
prospecting work during the year ... The main shaft was sunk to 450 feet ... The mine is well
equipped with winding, pumping and crushing machinery. 670
1903: The Norman Proprietary Co., Yandoit South, met with such ill-success during the year that all
work is now suspended pending instructions from England ... shaft is now 630 feet ... the mine
is equipped with winding and crushing machinery. 671
1903: Alluvial mining in this division has been very dull indeed. Bennett and party (or the Wombat
Hill Tunnel Co.) met with fairly payable results early in the year, but during the latter half did
very poorly indeed. 672
1903: Great Western Alluvial G. M. Co. at Franklinford worked for the first half of the year ... a
winding and pumping was erected on this mine. 673
1903: The Bucket Dredging Co., which has been operating for some years with payable results in
Sailor's Creek, has now ceased operations, and is removing the plant, having worked out the
payable ground. 674
1903: A number of small co-operative parties and individual miners, have made a living in the
shallow alluvial. A good deal of tunnelling from the faces of the cliffs on either side of the
creeks, under the basalt is done in this division. 675
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