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4. With reference to minerals other than gold, I am not aware 
of any prominent discovery excepting that of the Belara Copper 
Mine, distant about twenty miles from Gulgong in the direction 
of Wellington. The indications are encouraging, and an assay 
of the grey ore, or of the red and black oxides, has shown a 
good percentage, but no continuous work, leading to certainty 
of opinion, has yet taken place. 
5. Considerable migrations have taken place to the Palmer 
and to other Gold Pields, but a noticeably large proportion of 
miners have in every case returned, demonstrating the general 
confidence felt in the permanent character of the Gold Pields of 
this district. 
6. The protracted dry weather has been highly unfavourable 
both to prospecting parties and to the general yield of gold, as 
large accumulations of wash-dirt have been recently^ awaiting 
sufficient >vater for the puddling process ; hut rain having lately 
fallen in large quantities, I have every confidence in a succession 
of discoveries of payable gold, and in a marked increase of the 
general yield. 
JTame of Lead. 
Depth of Wash. 
Width of Wash. 
Average yield 
per load. 
aULGONO. 
Black Lead. 
150 ft. sinking — alluvial.... , 
6 in. to 12 in. 
70 ft. to 300 ft. 
4 to 6 dwts. 
Caledoxiax Lead. 
85 to 100 ft. sinking 
4 in. to Gin. 
■ 
100 ft. to 600 ft. 
5 to 8 dwts. 
HOME EULE. 
Chkistaias Lead. 
80 ft. sinking (-worked out) 
— coarse gold. 
Home IIdle Lead. 
92 ft. to 170 ft. sinking — 
fine gold. 
50 ft 
15 dwts. 
(quartz wash.) 
\ in. to 2 ft. ... 
(fine wash.) 
150 ft 
10 dwts. 
Shallow Kush. 
9 ft. to 125 ft. sinking — 
coarse gold. 
9 -ff 
100 ft 
1 oz. 
(fine wash.) 
Lowe’s Paddock. 
80 ft. sinking — mullocky 
wash with coarse gold 
(worked out). 
a ft-, 
400 ft 
\ oz. 
i 
' 3 ft. to 15 ft. 
1 (mullocky wash 
coarse cold.) 
10 ft. to 40 ft. 
5 dwts. 
Cakadiax and Nil Bes- 
PEBANDTJM LeaDS. 
Two layers of wash — 70 ft 
to 158 ft. sinking. 
At tho Oeraont Claim at Old Tallaway, there are 10 to 25 feet of cement 
or conglomerate, yielding 3 dwts. to the ton. 
