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Kendinup. 
At about tlie same period gold was found at Kendinup, in a quartz reef 
which contained much iron pyrites. A company was floated and machinery 
erected, but as the mine did not pay it was abandoned. The rocks in this neigh¬ 
bourhood are crystalline schists, contain many quartz reefs and diorite dykes, 
both carrying large quantities of iron pyrites, which contain small quantities 
of gold. 
Bindoon. 
Next specimens of gold were found in quartz, at Bindoon, and a company was 
immediately started, which commenced work on a quartz reef containing a great 
deal of pyrites. They sunk two shafts, close together, on a reef at the top of a 
hill, for which work it is difficult to assign a reason, as this was not the reef in 
which the gold had been found, although it was afterwards proved to contain a 
small quantity. The rocks are slate and schist, with quartz reefs and diorite 
dykes, both containing large quantities of pyrites. 
The Darling Range. 
All along the Western face of the Darling Range, South of Perth, there are 
several immense quartz reefs, containing large quantities of pyrites, all of which 
carry a little gold. 
Taking into consideration the natural facilities for working these reefs, which 
are situated on the steep face of the hills, often cut through by gullies which llow 
in gorges 200ft. and 300ft. deep, the water supply, timber, fuel, and good road 
communication, these lodes should be thoroughly prospected. 
THE KIMBERLEY GOLDFIELD. 
(Proclaimed May , 1886.) 
This goldfield, having a proclaimed area of 47,000 square miles, is situated in 
the North-Eastern comer of the Colony, Its principal diggings and mines are 
near the Eastern boundary of the Colony, about 212 miles by the telegraph line 
from Wyndham on Cambridge Gulf, and 304 miles from Derby on King’s Sound, 
in the broken country at the head of the Elvire and Mary Rivers, the main 
tributaries of the Ord and Fitzroy Rivers. 
This goldfield was discovered in the year 1882 by the late Mr. E. T. Hardman, 
then Government Geologist, who, in 1884, reported on and issued a map of the 
district, showing the places where gold was likely to be found. These, in every 
case, proved to be correct; but as most of the alluvial deposits were very thin, no 
time was lost in sinking, so that a single miner was able in a short time to work 
out a large quantity of ground, which, unfortunately, led diggers in other parts of 
the world to believe, from the returns, that the diggings were much more extensive 
than they were in reality. 
The official centre on the field is at Hall’s Creek, which is connected with 
Perth, via, Derby, by a telegraph line, and there is also a line to the port of 
Wyndham. 
The Adelaide S. S. Co.’s steamers run between Cossack and Port Darwin 
calling at Derby and Wyndham about every three weeks; thus connecting this 
district with the Southern portion of this Colony, the Eastern Colonies, and 
Singapore, via Cossack, and tile North-Eastern Colonies, via Port Darwin. 
The road is now fairly good between Wyndham and the field, a distance of 
about 250 miles, and is well watered. 
This field consists of five main mining centres, extending for a distance North 
and South of about 90 miles, viz.:—The Panton, at the 180-mile post from 
