12 
A considerable quantity of alluvial gold Las been obtained in Elphinstone Creek 
and other streams on the field, mainly by Chinese, who turn over the wash again and 
again. Alluvial and reef gold have, however, not been distinguished in the early returns, 
and in more recent years part of the gold in the alluvial may have been derived from 
tailings. 
Yield of Eavenswood Gold Field. 
REEF 
GOLD. 
Alluvial, &c., 
Gold. 
• 
Year. 
Tons of Stone 
Cruslied. 
Oz. Gold. 
Total Gold. 
Remarks. 
To end of — 
1875 
Oz. 
Oz. 
170,649 
Deduced from figures in Report 
1876 
18,788 
Department of Mines for 1884, 
p. 10 
Includes gold from pyrites and 
1877 
10,441 
11,963' 
11,963 
tailings 
1878 
15,500 
13,252' 
15,744' 
13,252 
15,744 
' Includes gold from pyrites and 
1879 
15,700 
tailings 
1880 
13,479 
12,620' 
825 
13,445 
1881 
10,880 
8,600" 
2,595= 
10,195 
" Includes gold from tailings 
1882 
7,854 
5,002 
3,709* 
8,711 
1883 
7,985 
6,054 
6,946 
13,000 
® includes gold from exported 
1884 
13,202 
11,828 
2,364' 
14,192 
mimdic 
1885 
11,039 
15,916 
1,725= 
17,641 
1886- 
4,706 
7,406 
1,839= 
9,245 
* inciudes alluvial gold and gold 
1887 
6,589 
6,842 
3,548= 
10,390 
from tailings and exported 
1888 
11,560 
8,875 
1,791= 
10,666 
mundic 
1889 
19,498 
14,600 
1,119 
15,719 
1890 
17,796 
14,731 
1,322 
16,053 
= Classed as “ alluvial” by warden 
Total 
... 
369,653 
RAVENSWOOD SILVER FIELD. 
A belt of argentiferous rocks extends for about six miles north-westward from 
the richest part of the Eavenswood Gold Field. Although the goldfield and the silverfield 
are both in granite country, a tolerably distinct line may be drawn between the grey 
syenitic granite of the goldfield and the coarse-grained rod granite of the silverfield. 
The latter is a mixture of roundish blebs of quartz, flesh-coloured or pinkish orthoclase 
crystals, and hexagonal mica. The principal lode, known as King’s, or the One-Mile, 
runs N. 28° W., and underlies at 35° to E. 28° N. It is a very rich lode, and frequently 
consists of two parallel veins. The surface yielded carbonates of lead, giving as much 
as 300 oz. of silver to the ton. The lower levels have given a steady yield of galena ores, 
with, as a rule, 2 oz. of silver per ton to the unit of lead. The galena is in places a 
good deal mixed with pyrites and zinc-blonde. In a shaft in Lease 109 the lode has been 
cut at a vertical depth of 650 feet. The shaft bottomed on an antimony and copper ore, 
somewhat resembling teti’ahedrite in its composition, but containing from 500 oz. to 
5,000 oz. of silver to the ton. Pumping and winding and dressing machinery were 
erected to work this rich deposit, which, however, appears to have thinned out. 
The Mount Eight Lodes, at the north-western end of the argentiferous belt, 
have not yet been worked on a large scale, although the Warden reported that in 1883 
a single miner raised 20 tons of galena ore, worth £400. In 1884 the same “ hatter ” 
raised 26 tons, worth £702. Some thin lodes of antimony ore occur among the silver- 
lead mines of Mount Eight. 
