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Mines and Mineral Statistics, 
Other ores. 
I have found cliromate and other iron ore in the presence of 
lime and fuel, maganese antimony, tungstate of iron, but not a 
stain of copper that I have met with. 
Sypotheticah 
Although the cements here are not quartzose, they are as I 
think of the same geological age as those so widely seen in the 
Gold Fields of Victoria, and are, as I believe, the earliest work of 
the sea, and not what they are called in the authorized Victorian 
geology. I have always been satisfied that they are coeval 
with and related to the “ Old Hed'^ Those who question their 
great age may come here and inspect road cuttings, showing well 
defined trap dykes like walls up through the boulder-beds. 
Anomalies. 
There are reefs and veins younger than animals that once 
lived. A promising silver lode, with gold in fossiliferous rock, 
through Dr. Creed’s and other adjacent land, in other parts the 
inferior precious stones taking the place of quartz with gold, 
such as agate, carnelian, chalcedony, coarse jasper, coarse opal, 
&c., proving, as I said before, that gold has no particular com- 
panionship or dwelling-place. 
There is lime-rock with silicious lodes near Croney, quartz- 
stones with encrinite stems and other nuclei, either floral or 
faunal, removed. 
There are pelagic beds — ‘‘cement” of the gold-miner — broken 
through by volcanic eruption. There is, remote from this, at 
Currajong, a sandstone or elvan dyke, many yards in width, 
between clay-slate walla, traversed obliquely by auriferous quartz 
veins, the latter being bounded or cut off in both directions by 
the slate-roclv. At the same place there is a counter dyke in the 
larger one, and amongst the quartz veins composed of bluestone, 
much resembling the so-called volcanic stone, the last-named 
dyke, enclosing numerous well-rounded smooth boulders, much of 
the same sort of stone as that enclosing them ; in other words, it 
is a pudding-stone dylce traversing an elvan-sione dghe. Although 
this is some 350 miles from the subject of this report, I have 
inserted it as a fact explanatory of the confused order of the 
rocks elsewhere seen. 
Coming back to the Hunter and Peel — and in allusion to the 
pudding-stone or “ cement” lying upon slate on edge— I have to 
notice the effect of a keen but unknown agency by which the 
fissures or cleavage of the slate underneath are produced up 
through the conglomerate ; such cutting or penetrating action 
bisecting everything in its way, boulders hard aud soft, like a 
