The Lake Fault Oil Gold 



disseminated through the mass of the gneiss, and as 

 this was slowly worn away by the agents of denudation, 

 the stream had panned out the dust and accumulated 

 it in these gravel-filled hollows. In the course of the 

 excavation we came across several layers of small gravel, 

 made up, for the most part, of pebbles of quartz larger 

 than any crystals of quartz which we had seen in the 

 gneiss, and from this we judged that somewhere up- 

 stream were veins of quartz, which might or might not 

 be gold-bearing. 



After a week's hard work the bottom of the deposit 

 was reached, the lowest layer of sand was found to be 

 much richer than those previously examined, and we 

 were able to obtain upwards of four ounces of dust from 

 it as the result of one day's work with our two camp 

 basins. 



The floor on which the sand rested was of gneiss, 

 and was fairly regular, but at one corner of the trench 

 it seemed to fall away rather rapidly to a lower level. 

 This hollow might prove worthy of exploration, and we 

 commenced to work the trench in that direction, and 

 found a hollow in the rock surface filled with gravel 

 consisting of the white quartz pebbles which we had 

 noticed at higher levels. There was one small pocket 

 measuring not more than 5 feet by 3 feet, and having 

 a depth of 4 feet in its deepest part. This was com- 

 pletely filled with gravel, the whole being buried beneath 

 the gold-bearing sands. We decided to make a thorough 

 examination of the contents of this hollow, and were 

 well rewarded for our trouble. 



One of the first pebbles to be examined was found 

 to contain particles of gold, and near the bottom we 



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