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portion of the workings on Monarrumhi Creek, where massive hornblendic slates crop 
out at the foot of the range on the north side of the creek, and granite on the point of 
the spur constituting the south hank. But I believe that the little (quantity of gold 
found hero has travelled from the tract of greenstone above, and that the whole of the 
gold has been derived from this latter rock. The only instances of vein quartz, locally 
termed “reefs,” we're in the Wild Horse and White’s Claims, both beiug in greenstone.* 
WARWICK GOLD FIELDS. 
LUCKY VALLEY, TALGAI, CANAL CREEK, AND PIKEDALE. 
These small goldfields have never attained to any importance. Mr. C. D’Oyly H. 
Aplin, in his “ Report on the Auriferous Country of the Upper Condamine,”t says : ■ 
“ Talgai, Thane’s Creek, and Canal Creek are comprised within one continuous area of 
similar formation (probably Lower Silurian),]; but between this and its eastern develop- 
ment at Lucky Valley there intervenes, along the immediate valley of the Condamine, 
a strip of about twenty-five miles of country occupied by sandstones, gravels, and con- 
glomerates, belonging to the Coal Measure Series” [Ipswich Formation]. 
Lucky Valley is entirely an alluvial diggings. 
Copper lodes, as well as auriferous mundic reefs, occur at Pikedale. 
In a quartz vein on Duffer Gully (Lucky Valley) there are found “ small, bright, 
foliated metallic plates and scales of tellurium, in which gold may be seen imbedded. § 
Yield of Waewice Gold Fields. 
Year. 
Stone Cruslied. 
Yield therefrom. 
Alluvial Gold. 
Total. 
Tods. 
Oz. 
Oz. 
Oz. 
186V 
790 
988 
988 
1868 to 1876 
returns) 
(No returns) 
1877 
325 
390 
(No returns) 
390 
1878 
572 
736 
(No returns) 
736 
1879 
40 
60 
60 
1880 
199 
ICO 
(No returns) 
160 
1881 
416 
326 
(No returns) 
326 
1882 
648 
618 
(No returns) 
618 
1883 to 1886 
( 1^0 returns) 
(No returns) 
557 
1887 
48 
72 
483 
1888 
(No returns) 
(No returns) 
1889 
(No returns) 
521 
1890 
1,854 
Total 
149 
2,003 
4,389 
J. 
* C. D’O. H. Aplin, Report of the Government Geologist, Southern Division. Brisbane : by 
Authority: 18G9. 
t Itrisbane : by Authority : 1809. 
t Mr. Aplin does not give a list of the fossils on which this determination is based, and says that 
“ in general aspect they resemble the fossils of Gympie.” 
Aplin. 
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