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There are five reefs iii the May Queen Claim. Ten tons of stone sent to G-yrapie 
gave a return of 1 oz. 1-1. dwt. of gold per ton. Machinery is about to be erected on 
the field. _ • i j 
In 1887, the total yield of gold from the Gayndah fields, which include 
Mount Shamrock, Gebangle, Chowie Creek, Stanton - Harcourt, Eiver Bend, and 
Brovinia, is given as 3,348 oz. from 3,151 tons ; in 1888, 3,810 oz. from 6,292 tons ; 
in 1889, 1,793 oz. from 3,840 tons ; in 1890, 2,791 oz. 
PARADISE GOLD EIELD. 
This new goldfield is situated partly in granite or porphyry country and partly 
in siliceous slates, which may be assumed to belong to the Gympie formation. ^ The 
following description is taken from a lieport by Mr. Bauds,* who gives, in addition, a 
minute account of the different reefs. The Paradise and William Tell Beefs are in 
the “porphyry” country and the remainder in the slate. 
“ The Paradise Gold Field is situated on the south side of the Burnett Eiver, 
about eight miles north-west of Degilbo Station, and about two miles below the mouth 
of Yarrabil Creek, the creek on which Gebangle is situated. 
“ Gold was discovered in reefs here about the middle of the year 1889, by 
Messrs. Allen and party. In my report on Gebangle, &c., published early in the year 
1890,t I mentioned two reefs as being prospected in this district. Only during the 
last six or eight months, however, have any number of people been attracted to this 
field, and during that time fresh reefs have been discovered and prospecting has been 
going on apace. 
“ At the present time the population of the field is estimated at about 400. 
“The reefs extend back for a distance of two miles from the Burnett Eiver, 
and are situated on the steep ridges which lie between Scrubby or Paradise Creek 
and Finney’s Creek. The site of the township is on the alluvial flat which fringes 
the river. 
“ The field at present is not a large one ; it covers an area of from one and a-hali 
to two miles in a uorth-and- south direction, by, say, an average of half-a-mile in an east- 
and-west direction. Very similar rock, however, extends over a much larger area, so 
that there is every probability of an extension of the area over which gold-bearing reefs 
will be found. _ 
“ The country-rock is for the most part a hard dark-coloured siliceous slate, witn 
altered sandstone in places. It is only here and there that the dip of the slates is 
sufficiently defined to be determined. 
“In the neighbourhood of the Paradise P.C. arid Leishman’s William Tel, 
and crossing the ridge along which the road to Mount Shamrock runs, there is a 
porphyry with a granitic structure, and consisting of about equal parts of quartz 
and felspar. The Paradise P.C. shaft has passed through this rock down to its present 
depth, 130 feet. _ ■ i, it, 
“ All the way down Yarrabil Creek, from Gebangle to near its junction with the 
Burnett, slates and sandstones dip steeply to the north-wmst. On the north-eastern 
side of Scrubby or Paradise Creek, near its junction with the river, there are ridges 
containing thick beds of a white crystallized limestone running in an east-north-easter y 
* Brisbane : by Authority : 1891. 
t Report on Mount Biagendon Mine, Gebangle, &c. Brisbane : by Authority : 1800. 
