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60 ounces of gold was found at the intersection of an angular 

 with the main lead. 



A pocket of 100 pounds of reddish scheelite was found at 

 the depth of 40 feet (12 m.) in a large roll of quartz in the 

 Schaffer Barrel lead on the eastern pitch of the anticline, 

 where good examples of barrel quartz structure can be 

 observed at the surface. Smaller pockets are also reported 

 to have been found in the South Wallace, Dunbrack and a 

 few other veins. Until recently the mineral was not 

 identified by the miners who called it pinkeye, and as gold 

 is not found associated with it they shunned its presence. 



PRODUCTION. 



Gold was first discovered in this district in 1861. Active 

 mining operations commenced the following year and have 

 continued steadily to the present time. The official 

 reports show that the yearly production of gold fluctuated 

 between 282 ounces in 1897 and 3,171 ounces (for 9 months) 

 in 1893, and the average yield per ton varied from 10 dwt. 

 21 gr. in 1 88 1 to 3 oz. 5 dwt. 5 gr. in 1908. 



The total gold production from 1862 to 191 2 has been 

 67,343 ounces, valued at $1,279,520, extracted from 58,735 

 tons of ore. The average yield per ton is therefore 1 oz. 

 2 dwt. 22 gr. 



ANNOTATED GUIDE: ENFIELD TO WESTERN 

 END OF OLDHAM GOLD DISTRICT. 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



o m. Enfield Station — Alt. 63 ft. (19-2 m.). 



o km. Going in a southerly direction from Enfield 



station, the road runs for the first half a mile 

 over flat-lying Lower Carboniferous sediments 

 consisting chiefly of thick deposits of gypsum 

 and beds of limestone, sandstone and shale 

 which are here concealed by boulder clay and 

 deposits of sands and clays of Pleistocene age. 



0-5 m. Shubenacadie River — Alt. 47 ft. (14-3 m.). 



0-8 km. At the Shubenacadie river the road enters 

 the Goldenville formation of the Goldbearing 



