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lodes. The lodes, however, underlie to the south-west, while the strata dip to the north- 
east. They are traceable for considerable di.staiices on the surface, as quartz reefs 
stained with antimony oxide, and on being opened show large shoots of solid sulphide 
of antimony (stibuite). The Emily was worked for sometime for gold; the recorded 
crushings, 382 tons 12 cwt., having yielded 315 oz. 13 dwt. 
The Wardens’ Eeports mention that in 1877 several tons had been prepared for 
shipment, but as the price in Melbourne was only £12, nothing further had been done ; 
that in 1881, Messrs. Denny and Co. were erecting smelting works; that in 1882, a 
quantity of ore had been raised ; that in 1883, Messrs. Edwin Eield and Son had erected 
large smelting works ; that in 1881, 550 tons of ore had been smelted, yielding 145 tons 
of crude antimony, valued at £3,500, and that the company had suspended operations , 
that in 1885, 70 tons of ore, valued at £300, had been raised; that in 1889, 58 tons, 
valued at £215, had been raised ; and that in 1890, the Emily Co. had raised and 
purchased 578 tons 4 cwt., and smelted 571 tons for a yield of 172 tons of crude 
antimony, and had also forwarded to England 1 ton 4 cwt. 1 qr. of regulus, and 19 tons 
of oxide (from flues), averaging 70 per cent., and had also forwarded two parcels of 
7 tons 4 cwt., and 31 tons 5 cwt. of antimony ore from Woodville North (down the 
Hodgkinson below Thornborough). The value of the yield for the year is estimated at 
£4,816. 
MULGKAVE GOLD EIELD. 
The Mulgrave Eiver has evidently at one time entered the sea in Trinity Bay, 
but has been deflected — probably by the flows of basalt which fill up its valley down to 
the point where it turns sharply round to the south to flow into the sea at Port 
Constantine. It is a magnificent river, and drains the north side of Mount Bartle 
Erere, the eastern edge of the Barron Tableland, both sides of the Bellenden-Ker 
Eanges, and the western slopes of the Malbon-Thompson Eange. The Lower Camp, 
or Goldsborough, is on the left bank of the river, at its junction with Toohey Creek. 
The Upper Camp is about six miles south of Goldsborough, on the spur dividing Toohey 
Creek and the Mulgrave. The walls of the Mulgrave Valley are mainly of greywacke, 
slate, and quartzite ; but between the Lower and Upper Camps Hows of basalt fill up 
the lower portions of the Mulgrave and Toohey Creek A^alleys. In following the track 
from the Upper Camp to Uorbertou the stratified rocks continue to the edge of the 
basaltic tableland of the Barron. The Eisherios track from the Mulgrave to 
Ilerberton, on the other hand, makes its ascent to the edge of the basalt tableland over 
granitic rocks. There are evidently two distinct periods of basaltic outflows ; the first, 
that which “levelled up” the Barron Tableland, and the second, that which choked up, 
at least for a time, the Mulgrave and other valleys, which had been carved out of the 
tableland. 
A good deal of gold has been got in the alluvia of the Mulgrave at and below 
Goldsborough, but no accurate statistics are now obtainable. No serious attempt has 
as yet been made to search for gold beneath the newer basalt. The same may be said m 
this locality of the older basalt of the tableland, although the latter is continuous wdth 
the basaltic flows of the Up]ier Eussell, beneath which payable drifts have been recently 
discovered. ^ 
At the Lower Camp are the Alice Eeef, underlying to south-south-cast at 70 
(coincident with the bedding of the slates and greywaekes), and the Cairns Co-operative 
Co.’s Eeef, vertical and running w'cst-south-west. At the Upper Camp are the 
Homeward Bound, Orient, Mowbray, Mabel, Scandinavian, and others. The reefs 
resemble in many points those of the Hodgkinson, and, although they cover only 
limited area, some of them arc likely to prove rich. 
