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bank 30 feet from the bed, were fortunate enough to strike a rich 
vein of wash 2 feet thick running into the bank. The vein has 
been proved very good to a width of 30 feet, with every sign of 
its continuing ; the stripping is sandstone and stiif clay, and the 
wash is a clayey creek-wash without very large stones, and 
requires puddling before the tin can be extracted. 
No. 18. — Three specimens of stanniferous wash-dirt, from the 
Great Britain Tin Mine, situated west of Ardern’s 40-acre 
block. {J^ide No. 9.) 
No. 14. — Sample of picked coarse pieces of stream tin from 
the Glen Creek, seven miles north of Vegetable Creek, (yide 
No. 25.) 
No. 15. — Sample of picked coarse pieces of stream tin from 
the Great Britain Tin Mine, Vegetable Creek. (Vide No. 9.) 
No. IG.—A sample of stream tin from the Great Britain Tin 
Mine. (No. 9.) 
No. 17.— A sample of stream tin from the Little Britain Mine, 
situated west of the Great Britain Mine, and about the centre of 
the principal operations .in Vegetable Creek. This mine was 
considered Avorked out, as all the bed of the creek to a width of 
120 feet had been wrought, but the energetic j)roprietor, Mr. L. 
B. Ashton, Avhile ])rospeeting a large flat alongside the old Avork- 
iugs, struck rich AA'ash one hundred yards away from the creek 
bed, and has since px^oved the Avdiole flat, 400 feet square, to be 
payable. The stripping requires the use of blasting powder, 
haAung the appearance of hard ferruginous sandstone ; the Avash 
is 2 feet thiede, of clayey ci‘eek-wash, with large stones, which 
requires puddling before operated on. 
No. 18. — A sample of stream tin from Messrs. Hall Bros. 
& Co.’s Vegetable Creek Mine, situated at the lower end of the 
lead, Avorked in the hod of the creek. Tlie lead has been proAxd 
payable in the banks, and is a hundred yards Avide. The Avash is 
hea\y creek-AAMsh Avith large boulders. Over several parts of the 
lead, from grass to bottom, is pnt through, but on an average the 
thickness of the Avasli-dirt is 2 feet. This is the only mine on 
Vegetable Creek where ground-sluicing is used, hut then only 
Avhen heaAy rain falls. The apparatus for extracting the tin is 
the same as that used in most of the mines, i.c., horse-pump, 
hopper-plate, and large boxes. 
No. 19. — A sample of stream tin from the Grampian Hills, 
the property of Hall Bros. & Co., situated on Vegetable Creek, 
about six miles from the head of it. (No. 3.) 
No, 20. A sample of sti’eam tin from Tent Hill, Hall Bros. & 
Co.’s selection, 4 miles east of A^egetable Creek. 
No. 21. A sample of stream tin from Kangaroo Flat, Strath- 
bogie, 13 miles north-A\"eat of Vegetable Creek. In this part of 
the Division, tin ore can be seen on any of the hills by blowing the 
