Suggestions for further Development of Gold Mining . 139 
The relation to other gold-fields of Foster and Turton’s Creek, 
in South Gippsland, cannot well bo indicated on account of the 
great extent of country occupied by Mesozoic rocks which inter- 
venes. It is by no means improbable that the lowest beds of the 
Mesozoic strata, immediately resting on the Silurian rocks about 
a line between Foster and Turton’s Creek, may consist of auri- 
ferous conglomerates.] 
Tur ton’s Creek offers a tempting inducement to search for tho 
source from which the exceedingly rich alluvial gold found there 
was derived. 
A small belt in which tho quartz reefs are not associated with 
diorite dykes is formed by the Royal Standard Reef on the fall 
towards the Goulburn, and the Donnelly’s Creek Reefs in Gipps- 
land ; the extensions of this belt southward from Donnelly’s 
Creek and northward from the Royal Standard have not been 
discovered. 
In the north-eastern part of the colony we have the great 
auriferous belt which includes — on the fall towards the Murray — 
the gold-fields of Rutherglen, Chiltern, Barnawartha, Eldorado, 
Yackandaudah, Beechworth, Stanley, Myrtleford, Bright, the 
Bucklaud, Wandiligong, and the various workings along the 
Ovens Valley to Harriet ville. On the Gippsland side — the 
Dargo and Cobungra, Grant, Crooked River, the Wentworth, 
Swamp Creek on the Mitchell, Boggy Creek, near Bairnsdale, 
and other gold-workings. The Mitta Mitta and Dark River 
workings, those of Omeo, Swift’s Creek, the Tainbo and Nichol- 
son Rivers, Zulu and Gibbo Creeks, and, in the far east, Bendoe, 
all demonstrate tho existence of further zones of gold-bearing 
country, the northerly and southerly continuations and also inter- 
mediate portions of which it would bo desirable to test. 
The above general description is only intended to roughly indi- 
cate the main zones, each of which would, if examined, bo found 
to comprise a number of minor distinct belts, and each of these 
again a number of separate lines of auriferous quartz reef or 
evidence of tho existence of the latter in the form of auriferous 
alluvial deposits. 
Along the lines of all the belts or of their extensions are un- 
proved tracts of exposed Silurian country in which surface 
prospecting could be easily carried on, or areas covered with 
sedimentary deposits and lava-flows, under which there would be 
a fair chance of discovering fresh sources of gold supply. Atten- 
tion may be drawn to the advisability of more careful exploration, 
than has yet been made in search of lines of auriferous quartz 
reef. Tho extent of proved auriferous alluvial ground is so very 
large, and it has been in many places so exceedingly rich, that 
the number of quartz reefs actually worked, and tho extent to 
which they have been developed, seem ridiculously small in 
