280 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION C. 



I. Holt-Sutherland. 

 Commencing at a depth of 1728' 11" from the surface. 



Feet. Inches. 



3 Clay shale, dark grey with purple bands. 

 28 2 Mudstone and sandy clay shale, the former greenish- 

 grey, the latter dark reddish -purple, about a quarter 

 shales and the rest mudstone. 

 10 Mudstone, pale inky-grey. 

 Sandy shales, grey. 

 Clay shale, dark reddish-purple. 

 8 Reddish-purple shale. 



Ctipriferous reddish-purple shale. 

 Reddish purple clay shale, etc. 

 Cupriferous redclis]i--purpJe day shah. [Assay, 



No. 85.] 

 Greenish-black and purplish-black clay shale. 

 Core missing. 

 Purplish-black clay shale, 

 (about) Dark greenish-black clay shale. 



„ Reddish-purple clay shale. 



Dark greenish-black siliceous clay shale, 

 (about) Purplish-black clay shale. 

 Dark greenish-grey sandy shale. 

 Sandy clay shales with flakes of native copper. 



[Assay, No. 82.] 

 Dark greenish-grey sandy clay shales. 

 Dark greenish-gi'ey or greenish-black siliceous clay 



shale with semi-conchoidal fracture. 

 Dark greenish-grey to black siliceous shales. 

 Greenish-black clay shale. 



Ctipriferous greenish and purple black clay shale. 

 [Assay, No. 84.) 

 oj Sandy greenish-black tufFaceous shale. [Microscpic 



section made from this.] 

 8|^ Hard greenish-black siliceous clay shale. 

 2f Cupriferous shale, dark greenish-grey. [Assays, 



Nos. 94 & 95.] 

 2 7 Dark greenish and purplish-black siliceous clay 



shale. 

 6 Cupriferous shale, dark greenish-grey to greenish- 

 black. [Assay, No. 81.] 

 10 2| Clay shale, crumbling, passing into greenish-black 

 and purplish-black mudstone. 



Total 71 



