123 
be following information regarding tlie yield of tlic Mulgrave is all tbal can 
extracted from the Wardens’ Koports, which are evidently imperfect, especially as 
^ga-rcls alluvial gold obtained in the early days of the field. 
Year. 
1879 
1880 
1881 
1882 
1883 
1884, 
1885 
1886 
1888 
1889 
1890 
Yibid or MuLaBAvB Gold Field. 
Quartz Crusted. 
Yield of Gold 
therefrom. 
Total Gold. 
Tons. 
Oz. 
Oz. 
(Ho crusliings) 
440 
(iNo crusliings) 
1,123 
(JNo crusliings) 
784 
442 
446 
502 
174 
302 
302 
29 
230 
302 
222 
260 
275 
100 
262 
262 
115 
327 
327 
(Ho crusliings) 
(Little work done) 
Total 
4,316 
PALMER GOLD FIELD. 
"^'bc Palmer Gold Pick!, so far as it has been hitherto opened up, occupies an 
othe be roughly estimated at 2,300 square miles. This estimate, as in all 
ji^g relation to the area of the proclaimed goldfield. The greater 
So*" goldfield is occupied by shales and sandstones in strata, which are tilted up 
Veri^ strike from north and south to north-north-west and south-south-east, nearly 
8tou '^’PP'°g slightly to west and west-south-west. Associated with the sand- 
fro sbales, and obviously part of the same series, is a belt of limestone, traceable 
roc^ miles north of Palmerville southward to the Mitchell Kiver. These stratified 
Press suffered auy appreciable degree of metamorphism ; but owing to lateral 
are shales have occasionally been cleaved so as to become true slates. They 
Iteo- by dykes of igneous rocks (dolorite and diorite) of much later date. 
fbo ago of the stratified rocks, no direct evidence has yet been discovered. 
li: 
mestor 
and sandstones having yielded only uu<listinguishable plant-remains, and the 
bthol” traces of Encrinites and Corals of indeterminable genera. From the 
resemblance of some of the beds, however, to others found in the 
bbose Crold Field, it may be inferred that the Palmer rooks are identical with 
” ^be Hodgkinson — i.e., they belong to the Gynipie Formation. 
‘^buvial 92 per cent, of the gold hitherto obtained from the Palmer has been 
"'est 
The reefs in the neighbourhood of Maytown generally strike west-north- 
Rorth-north-west, and underlie toward the south and west. Those at Lime- 
may be arranged in three groups — the first, running north and south and 
thg fL' bhe west ; the second, east and west, and underlying to the north ; 
east rp,’ ^^°’’fb-east and south-west, some underlying north-west and some south- 
Uuderli ^oi’manby group of reefs follows no definite rule in their hearing and 
stone 
^nde: 
bbOo • f be seen from the following table, the reefs have yielded, from 1874 to 
105,548 oz. of gold. 
ing. rj,, ymld from this source reached its maximum in 187(5, the third year of wmrk- 
Rsi Was owing. In the first place, to the ease with which gold could be extracted 
