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Mr. Weaver on the 
The principal depot of the Ballinvalley gold extended about six 
hundred fathoms down the stream below the ford. In other quar- 
ters the gold obtained was comparatively of small amount. The 
largest piece found in any of the other streams was on the Coolbawn 
side. It weighed ounces. But in all these cases, the gold was 
accompanied by most of the metallic substances enumerated in the 
Ballinvalley stream. 
By the Ballinvalley trench alone, twenty-seven veins of quartz 
were found, varying from nine inches to four feet wide, in a distance 
of 700 fathoms ; and in the same manner, by the Ballinagore trench 
eighteen quartz veins were discovered, in a distance of 600 fathoms. 
These veins partly range and dip with the slaty rock, but they also 
ramify and terminate in strings which intersect the latter. They 
are evidently contemporaneous, and most of them are barren, but 
some were found bearing magnetic ironstone, iron pyrites, and iron 
ochre, with chlorite. Two of the most powerful veins occur on the 
western side of the northern arm of the mountain, one being six feet 
wide in the broadest part, and the other four feet. They consist prin- 
cipally of massive magnetic ironstone and quartz, with disseminated 
copper pyrites, and iron pyrites. A similar vein, four or five feet 
wide, with the addition of blende, occurs near the extremity of the 
northern arm, and another, two and a half feet wide, appears in the 
face of the rock over the Daragh river. Trials for copper ore were 
made on these veins in the course of the last century, but they proved 
unproductive, being found to consist almost exclusively of iron ore ; 
and the same fate attended extensive superficial operations, conducted 
upon similar viens, in Knocknamohil and Ballymoneen, to the 
north of the Daragh. 
§ 107. But the discovery of native gold was not confined to 
Croghan Kinshela. Trials were instituted by the directors in an- 
