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cent. ; the lode is regarded as very promising. There is another 
copper mine in the same locality, of which no particulars are to 
hand. 
Peelwood Copper Mine, at Peelwood, 10 miles from Tucna ; 
100 men employed ; thickness of lode 4 feet ; strike N. and 
S. ; dip 15° easterly; present depth 384 feet; the foot-wall 
consists of schist, the hanging- wall of soft slate ; some 1,900 tons 
have been raised, of which 1,1-00 tons have been smelted, for 
Avhich purpose three furnaces and a calciuer arc used. The 
results obtained by analyses are from 7 per cent, to 20 per cent. 
The average yield obtained is 12?;- per cent. Silver and lead ai-e 
also found, but are not worked at ])resent. 
Near Orange there are several copper lodes. The Grreat 
Western Copper Company are working the following lodes at 
Icely, viz.: — The AVilliams Lode, which is 2 Meet thick at the 
surface, 5 feet at 25 fathoms, and 3 feet at 45 fatlioms ; the strike 
is 30° west of north ; the dip is easterly, 1 in 4 ; 4,0(-)0 tons of ore 
raised, yield 560 tons of copper, Upon this lode they employ 
twelve 'men. The Icely lode, which has been proved to a depth 
of 25 fathoms, average thickness 1 ft. 0 in. ; strike 30° west of 
north ; dip 1 in 6, easterly ; 1,000 tons of ore raised, yield 100 
tons of copper ; matrix of ore, clorite, and copper pyrites. Upon 
this lode they employ thirteen men. There are several other lodes, 
of which they have worlccd four ; the strike and di[) of these arc 
the same as above ; from these they have raised 100 tons of ore, 
which has given 12 tons of copper. The.se lodes arc enclosed by 
blue slate.' Upon these lodes they employ six men. The same 
Company are working eight lodes at Lewis Ponds Creek ; aver- 
age thickness 3 feet; strike 20 west of north; dip 5 in 24, 
easterly ; proved to a depth ol 28 fatlioms ; 4,000 tons ot ore 
raised, yield 640 tons-of copper. Upon these they employ ten men; 
matrix of lodes clorite ; lodes enclosed in clay-slate ; ore smelted 
by fire, and brought on by heat and air in reverberatory furnaces. 
The'Ophir Company is working a lode at Browii’s Creek, 
average thickness 2 feet ; strikes 30° west of north, dip 1 in 6 
easterly, proved to a depth of 25 fathoms, matrix quartz. 200 
tons of ore raised, yield 30 tons copper ; number of men employed 
20. The ore contains gold, also oxide, carbonate, and sulpliuret of 
copper. 
The Carrangara Company is working alode at Byng. Atadepth 
of 5 fathoms the hulc is 3 inches thick, at 10 fathoms 6 inches, at 30 
fathoms 1 foot, at 40 fathoms 1 foot 6 inches ; the strike of the 
lode is 15° west of north ; the dip 60° west. ■ 5,600 tons of ore 
have been raised, of which 2,240 tons have been treated, yielding 
784 tons of copper. Analysis shows tlie ore to contain quartz, 
iron, sulphur, copper and gold. The mode of treatment is as 
follows The ore is calcined in the open air, then fused in a 
reverberatory furnacej skimmed, tapped, roasted, and then refined. 
