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Section taken in a NE direction from Smith's Gully to Pipeclay Gully - Bannockburn Basin

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1 of 1

Date

April 1865

Source

See notes below

Description

Section taken in a NE direction from Smith's Gully to Pipeclay Gully - Bannockburn Basin Drawn by J J Coates, Mining Surveyor. " in the main and already well worked gullies of the Bannockburn basin, mining operations have been principally transferred from their troughs to the terraces forming their immediate sides. As excavations proceeds into these terraces, the stratigraphical arrangement of the gravel and boulder drifts which mainly constitute the ground, is found to assume the form of a series of ancient river beds of varying graduation of levels, and in almost all courses of the present gullies. I have constructed section 1 from a survey of the terrace between Smith's Gully and the forked burn gullies, from which will be seen the great extent of such ground " From : Further papers relative to the Otago Goldfields presented by both houses of the General Assembly by command of His Exellency Wellington - 1865