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ALLENDALE EXPLORATION ACCESS FOR THE SOUTH-EAST PART, EL 3821 The Heritage Overlay Issue The inclusion of any private land (wherever it may be situated) in a Heritage Overlay does not give to any person authority to enter or occupy the land unless with the permission of the owner. The brown coloured areas are listed places on the Victorian Heritage Inventory. Consent of Heritage Victoria is a pre-requisite to approvals allowing work within 100 metres of these places. A decade after the sale of the Seven Hills Estate, an article in a former Melbourne newspaper, "The Argus", 25 November 1884, reported that 162,849 ounces of gold had been won from the deep lead workings south and up-stream of the boundary, the Seven Hills Estate. The local area referred to is marked on one of the accompanying plans. In a year 1942 publication, figures for the gold produced from this same local area are recorded as provided to the author by the then "Department of Mines" , this total being 181,740 ounces gold. The details allow this total to be divided into ... the western drainage 116,470 ounces the eastern pair of drainages 65,270 ounces. When the archive records behind these statistics were examined, Mount Rommel came to the conclusion that the tests for a bedrock source would be more productive if investigation of the eastern pair of drainages could occur. After the approval of Amendment C15, the Shire of Hepburn Planning Scheme, the Company began its work as follows -- Year 2006 Very detailed ground gravity to the immediate east of the folding intersected in hole EX98-02. This work took place in the small triangular block of ground north of the disused railway. Results indicated the work zone had crossed a much larger N-S trending structure, buried by basalt of unknown thickness. Year 2007 I.P. and resistivity on Allendale-Reservoir Road, and along Stag Road, led to surveys using these techniques in Lot 16, north of Stag Road, and semi-detailed ground gravity in Lots 9 and 16 (March 2008). Year 2008 Drilling took place to investigate an I.P. result, and probing to discover the location of the north-trending drainage divide, concealed by two thin basalt lava flows ( Hole H5). Exploration interest is heightened by the finding of gold at H5. Year 2009 Auger drilling, to locate the drainage divide to the north, and to thereby position the gold-enriched Kingston Park channel as west of, but near to, that basalt-covered divide. Year 2010 In-fill semi-detailed ground gravity, to complete the coverage between Stag Road and the Creswick-Smeaton Road. Interpretation followed the assembly of data. A preferred target for new drilling was established, where shown on the following Site Control Plan. The statutory procedures (Section 45, MRSD Act) have commenced, to attain approval for future drilling.
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