BY W. N. BENSON. 549 



near Cow Flat has the same strike, and dips W. 20 N. at 45°. 

 This ma}'^ be the dip of the strata in that locality. 



vii. — Economic Minerals. 



Gold. — In the early days there was a good deal of shallow 

 digging near Newbridge in what is now the railway reserve; but 

 it was never very satisfactory, and has entirely ceased.^' Lately, 

 however, a mine has started in the western part of the Parish 

 near the andesites (Portions 20 and 22), and cyanide vats are to 

 be set up. The great quartz reef (see p. 534) has been much 

 prospected but is barren. The mine at Caloola has been worked 

 successfully for some time, the gold occurring in a soft, highly 

 oxidised slate. 



Dredging has been carried on with some success in the valley 

 to the north, just outside the Galbraith Parish boundary, where 

 in the alluvium brought down by the Reedy Creek, consisting of 

 slate, andesite, and a little granite debris, payable gold was found 

 on the granite floor at a depth of about 25 feet. This dredge, 

 ha,s, however, lately closed down. 



Silver. — Some silver ore was reported from here,! and a shaft 

 was put down on Portion 29, Parish Galbraith, just near the 

 southern end of the haematite veins. Nothing payable was 

 found. 



Lead has been reported from this district, | but I did not learn 

 that any mining had been done for it. 



Cojrper. — Within the district described in this paper no payable 

 copper lodes have yet been discovered. Traces were found in 

 the making of the new railway cutting, and a lease was pegged 

 out, but nothing done. Mr. J. E. Carne reports a find of sulphide 

 ore from Colo Creek, § near Newbridge, but that is outside the 

 area here described; nor, so far as I know, has any mining been 



* Pittman, " Prospectors' Guide," p. 16, 1905. 

 t E. F. Pittman, Min. Resources of New South Wales, p. 127. 

 \ Pittman, ojp. cit. p. 192. 

 § Geol. Surv. New South Wales. Mineral Resources No. 6. ' ' The Copper 

 Mining Industry," &c.(1899), p. 76. 



