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of the shaft the lode takes a sharp bend to the west. The country is an altered 
^°iigloinerate or agglomerate, probably of volcanic origin, as it is full of angular 
Pf^rticles. 
On the Wolf Lode a level has been driven on the bank of the gully for 170 
shal country for the first 100 feet or so consists of sandstone and 
^ e dipping south-west at this point, and above them is a volcanic ash, much decom- 
containing often large angular pebbles. The lode runs north-east, and 
nbout 1 foot in thickness. 
“c Queensland Lode. 
The matrix contains much more calcite than that 
At 19 feet, one of 
j ** ^ cro.ss-cut lower down the gully cuts several lodes or veins. 
thickness of calcite ; at 55 feet, a lode of 1 foot 2 inches wide showing good 
at I4,r^ ^ calcite which appears to be dipping towards some leaders 
'^ide ^ contains cinnabar ; and at 200 feet the Wolf is cut 4 feet 2 inches 
’ contains a very good percentage of cinnabar, 
this • iheces of nearly pure cinnabar have been tricked up in a gully on 
Qj^i^ supposed to have come from a small vein a short distance from the Wolf 
mi far as tlie work has at present gone the prospect for the future of these 
looks very encouraging.”* 
jg ^othing is recorded of the output of the cinnabar mines. In 1877 the AYarden 
'=’nuah 
■ considerable progress has been made by the Messrs. Hester at their 
®un They have for some time past kept the machines at Gyinpie fully 
the ^ quiclrailver. The quicksilver supplied by Hester Brother.s is preferred by 
Gympie to the best article of its kind imported.” A^’ery little 
form^^j * made, although it was reported in 1886 that a company had been 
®d to Work them. 
'^inmK information has come to hand that a valuable deposit of stream 
has been discovered. 
Several cinnabar lodes occur in the district on the heads of AYido Bay Creek. 
cobalt lode occurs in a spur of Mount Coora, consi.stinar of serpentine. The 
has been 
lod, 
ah: 
'Out 50° 
in a spur of Mount Coora, eonsi.sting of serpentine, 
tr.aced over half-a-mile north and south, and underlies to the w'est at 
cotiait ' ' outcrop the lode consists of 10 or 12 feet of a talcose casing, with 
®'liceoiis''° foot-wall ; then 22 feet of cobalt ore wdth a brown 
to (this forms the chief ore-bearing portion of the lode) ; above this again, 
hian-nec ^**i'3ging-wall, is a mineral similar to pimelite, consisting of silicates of 
f’ce'n alumina with a little silicate of nickel. A tunnel, 80 feet in length, has 
'driven +1 back of the lodo, and from the end of the tunnel a cross-cut has been 
^®3riiicr lode, which passed through 15 feet of the main portion or cobalt- 
^®yond th^^^ lode, and then about 10 feet of the casing seen at the surface; 
ascei-pp mass of cobalt ore occurs, the width of which has not yet been 
O'” is that known as earthy cobalt, consisting of oxides of cobalt. 
,, and a little copper. 
^'Ccordin have shown the average ore to contain about 6 per cent, of cobalt, which, 
fhe 01-0 Sydney quotations, is worth about £13 10s. per ton. By hand-picking 
fon, qij^ Jiught be brought up to about 10 per cent., which would be worth £23 per 
^n(lout,j.p lode, and the large body of ore it contains, makes this 
y a very valuable and important discovery.”t 
* Report of the Dejiartment of Mines for 1S86. 
t W. II. Rands in Report of the Department of Mines for 138G, 
