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spots of ore of higher grade : thus in No. 3 level and in No. 6 level 

 there are two or three places running 4 to 6 dwts. per ton, one in 

 No. 8 level of 8 dwts., and in No. 9 level there are spots of ore assay- 

 ing respectively 6, 7, n, 12, 14, and 34 dwts. per ton ; but these 

 places are isolated, there being nothing in the distribution of the 

 gold-contents to indicate anything approaching definite chutes of 

 payable ore. The bulk of the vein consists of barren quartz, and 

 the gold, where present, is probably associated with iron-pyrites 

 which occurs in small patches, seams and strings of sparse occur- 

 rence. A sample of pure pyrites (D 51) taken from one of these 

 small bunches, assayed 3 ounces 5*3 dwts. to the ton. Occasionally 

 also there is a layer, 3 or 4 inches in thickness, of soft ferruginous 

 material on one of the walls of the lode ; but its occurrence is limited 

 in extent and its gold-contents small. A sample of this " casing n 

 was taken in No. 7 adit on the hanging wall of the vein. The seam 

 was 6 inches in width, and assayed 8| dwts. per ton (sample D 99),* 

 another sample of the same material from the same adit only assayed 

 2 dwts. per ton for a width of 6 inches (D 67); and in No. 6 adit 

 14 inches of casing assayed 1*3 dwts. per ton (D 72). 



The Phoenix Mine, formerly the property of the Indian Consoli- 

 dated Gold Company, is situated on the southern flank of Hadia- 

 betta, about 2 miles south of Pandalur and 6 miles from Devdla. 

 The ore-body worked in this mine strikes approximately north- 

 east and south-west and dips at about 30 degrees to the north-west. 

 The country-rock consists of hornblende and biotite gneiss and 

 the strike of the foliation of this rock is east-north-east and west- 

 south-west, making an angle of about 23 degrees with the strike of 

 the vein. 



Like the Alpha vein the Phoenix consists of a hard, white to semi- 

 transparent quartz, but there is more of the pyritic constituent than 

 in the Alpha; the vein walls are also less defined, the lode swelling 

 and pinching in a most irregular manner. The portion of the lode 

 disclosed by the Phoenix workings consists in reality of large lenti- 

 cular masses occurring at intervals in a plane of disruption and 

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