The main reef. 



56 HAYDEN: AURIFEROUS LOCALITIES IN NORTH COIMBATORE. 



pits and dumps, and the broken material often completely covers 

 and obliterates the reef. 



A few hundred yards to the east of the main outcrop are a 

 series of old shafts, sunk on small leaders, two of these shafts have 

 been partially cleared out by Mr. Morris, and in each of these I 

 took a series of samples. 



Whatever deep workings may have formerly existed on the main 

 reef are now completely filled up, and it was 

 therefore impossible to obtain samples except 

 from the surface outcrop. Two samples taken across the reef, 

 where it had a thickness of 4 feet, gave traces of gold. In addi- 

 tion to these samples, a considerable amount of material was 

 taken at various points from among the masses of debris covering 

 the outcrop : these were panned and in all cases yielded a very 

 good show of gold. 



Of the two shafts that have been cleared by Mr. Morris, the 

 Shafts on the more northerly has been opened out to a depth 



leaders No. i. f a b ut 50 feet along a small lode. 



A diagrammatic section of this shaft is shown in figure 1, which 

 shows also the points at which samples were taken, the thickness 

 of reef at each of these points, and the result of assay in penny- 

 weights of gold to the ton of ore. 



t=-£hickness of lode, 

 £=■ assay value of Sampl 

 in dwtfi. of gold to ' 



1 5 

 Scale |-i n -i I n 



5ft 



=0-65 cbst* 



Fig. 1. Section of shaft No. I, showing position and value of samples. 

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