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There is a good supply of excellent fresli water in this mine, and there is plenty 
of timber close at hand. 
Peewah. 
About ten miles distant, to the Eastward, on the Peewah Creek, is another 
series of auriferous antimony lodes; although some of them are undoubtedly very 
rich, very little has been done with them, the superior attraction of alluvial 
mining having taken all the labour away. 
Egina. 
Thirty miles South-East of Mallina, and 40 miles from the coast, is situated 
the rich patch of alluvial workings known as Egina. Gold is obtained in shallow 
alluvial deposits on a clay slate bottom, and some very nice little gutters have been 
satisfactorily worked. 
PlLBARRA. 
The next patch of workings is situated at Pilbarra, which is twelve miles 
South-East of Egina, and eight miles West of the Yule River. Here there is a 
narrow strip of country, about two miles wide, running in a North-East and 
South-West direction, between a belt of granite country and a ferruginous quartz 
dvke, the gold being found in rich scattered surface patches. The gold is very 
little water-worn, and often still adhering to its quartz matrix; but although many 
of these patches were excessively rich, and numerous quartz reefs are exposed, 
nothing except alluvial workings has as yet proved payable. 
Coongan. 
Forty miles further to the Eastward, on a branch of the De Grey, are more 
gold workings, but owing to the exceptional dryness of last season, very little 
work has as yet been done. Rich patches of alluvial gold have also been found on 
the Turner and the Coongan, from which latter, at Shaw’s Fall, the celebrated 
nugget, the “ Little Hero,” weighing 333oz. 8dwt., was obtained. 
Marble Bar. 
This took its name from a large mottled bar of quartz which crossed the 
Shaw River, which was supposed to he marble. There are some exceedingly 
rich reefs being worked here, many of them being of a very ferruginous character, 
but all showing gold freely in the stone. 
Ntjllagine. 
About 200 miles due East from Roeboume, and 130 miles from the coast, on 
a branch of the De Grey River called the Nullagine, a considerable extent of 
alluvial country has been worked, some portions of which have proved very rich. 
On this field there are, besides the modern wash of the gullies, old gutters or dee]) 
leads running through the hills, the wash from some of which will require crushing 
power before the gold can be extracted. Several rich gold-bearing reefs have also 
been found, but at present are not being worked, owing, probably, to the expense 
of getting machinery on to the field. 
This is a very rich and extensive field, and it is probable that the alluvial 
deposits will not be exhausted for some considerable period, and when they are, 
there will still remain many reefs to fall back upon, which are so rich at the sur¬ 
face that some of the alluvial diggers have been able to make very fair wages by 
simply dollying the stone during slack periods. Many of these reefs would pro¬ 
bably have been worked, before this, had it not been for the expense of transport¬ 
ing the machinery. There is not the least doubt that a good and permanent supply 
of water exists at no great depth from the surface. 
