Excerpt from Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition, 1875: Preparatory to the Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876; Opened 2nd September, 1875; Official Catalogue of Exhibits Many of the qua1tz-n'1ines are now worked at great depths; and there is, as far as can be gathered from the returns, no diminution in the yield of gold in the deeper levels. There is one shaft at Stawell, Magdala' mine, over 1600 feet in depth, one 1420 feet, one 1260, and two more than 1000 feet in depth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.