BY N. BARTLEY, ESQ. 127 
much of the alluvial gold of Victoria did. Ravenswood, at the 
upper camp, carries some very refractory gold ores, as shareholders 
have found to their cost, albeit very rich in the precious metal. 
The Cape River reefs have very free, pure, and thread-like 
filaments of gold in them, and the Etheridge produces beautiful 
waxy, white needles of cerussite (carbonate of lead) crossing 
each other in every direction and with little “pinheads” of pure 
gold adhering to every intersection, and everyone wonders how 
it came there. 
At some reefs, such as the Aurora, so mixed is the stone that 
three distinct ores of copper, one of lead, and one of iron may be 
seen with the native gold on a piece not larger than a boy’s fist. 
The Hodgkinson reefs are much troubled with peacock copper 
ore. The Croydon is too vast an area, and too little explored for 
anyone to pronounce as to what form of stone predominates there 
beyond saying that there is plenty of iron in it, and much silver 
with some of the gold. The Palmer reefs, though much “robbed” 
by the heavy alluvial deposits, are so well in the tropics that there 
is plenty of gold left in them, for reefs and gems grow rich as you 
approach the equator. Gold is found to the east of our meridian 
in New Caledonia and New Zealand, and in the former 64 ozs. to 
the ton has been assayed, but none of it is of high purity; and 
west of our meridian we have Kimberley and Borneo, as gold- 
producers of as yet unknown value ; but nothing has been found 
to surpass the Eastern Cordillera, of Australia, from Cape York to 
Gippsland latitude, while for ‘‘unrobbed” reefs that will employ 
labour and produce gold, locked up meantime in trust for future 
generations, long after the alluvial beds of Victoria have been 
cleaned out, we shall have to look solely to that vast territory at 
present known under the general name of Queensland. 
Mr. E. B. Lindon expressed regret at the unavoidable absence 
from the meeting of the author of the paper. Not only could 
Mr. Bartley have enlarged on some of the topics touched upon in 
his interesting paper, but he would no doubt have shown speci- 
mens in illustration of it, and amongst others, for instance, ores 
displaying the association of gold and copper as found at Kilkivan. 
Any remarks which he had to make were merely by way of 
supplement. His own previous experience in Brazil, Victoria, 
and elsewhere had led him to conclude that the presence of gold 
in “alluvial” did not imply the impoverishment of any portion of 
a reef occurring at the same place beyond that portion which by 
denudation had supplied the alluvial. Especially this was so, he 
