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and Yagahong. Other rich patches and belts exist further East, and a few patches 
have also been discovered nearer the coast. 
The Government have given Mr. Connelly the reward for reporting the dis¬ 
covery of payable gold on this field, but he had so little faith in his own discovery 
that he did not stay to prospect it. This was by no means the first discovery of 
gold on this field, as it was discovered at two places previous to this, viz., Mulga 
Mulga and Yuin, but in neither case did it prove to be in payable quantities. 
The gold-bearing belt inns nearly North and South for a distance of over 
100 miles, the different patches being separated by either high sandy table-lands 
or intrusive granite. The country is mostly open with no main ranges, but it is 
comparatively high, as it forms the water parting between the Murchison River 
and the lakes of the interior. 
The Nannine. 
The main line of reef runs North from the lake up to the spur of a rough 
ironstone ridge. It stands up in huge blows in places, and would, to anyone used 
to gold mining in other parts of the world, present a very unpromising appearance. 
But in spite of the fact that gold rarely occurs near these great blows, patches 
were found along this reef of great richness, and from holes" a few feet in depth 
small fortunes were taken. 
On sinking, these rich patches were lost, as the shoots dip to the North at 
such a slight angle, when it was supposed that the reef would prove to be barren 
in depth, but fortunately the sinking was continued to the water level, when the 
next rich shoot from the South was struck, and in driving at this level to tlie 
North-West the first shoots worked were again found. These rich shoots in tlie 
main line dip North at an angle of about 30° following the intersection for the 
most part of the ferruginous jaspery beds; besides these shoots of rich stone, the 
heavy bunches of rich stone, and the breaks in the reef, all follow the same dip as 
well as the striations on the walls. 
The rocks are mostly schistose with hard bands of ferruginous jaspery 
quartzite; these strike North and South, dipping at a high angle to the Eastward, 
whilst the reefs strike a little to the East of North and dip a little to the West 
where they do not go down vertically. 
The main line of reef is well defined for a considerable distance, following a 
true course with rich patches of gold occurring here and there along it, but at 
the North end it pinches out, and is lost at the surface, but was again found in 
depth, as all the rich shoots are dipping this way. To the Southward the main 
reef begins to split and change in character, losing its very defined appearance; 
whilst further South it splits and makes again, but nothing of any great value 
has been found along it here. 
This reef, which is mostly white at the surface, is of a bluish colour, and 
contaius a little galena and pyrites in depth, and is altogether of a very promising 
appearance. It is decidedly a main fissure vein, and tlie rich shoots will most 
probably be found to go down for an unlimited depth. 
On the Westward side of the Naunine line, in the valley, are a series of reefs 
more or less on one parallel line with the first-named. They are evidently due to 
the lateral dislocation which took place when the main fissure was opened. 
Although following about one line, there is nothing to show that they are one and 
tlie same reef; in fact, on the other hand, when attempts to*trace them have been 
made they have always failed. They are in all probability a series, not one reef, 
and will be found to dip to the Northward, following the same lines as the 
Nannine. 
On the Eastward side of the main line are also some more reefs, but, like 
those to the Westward, they cannot be traced for any distance; but on all those 
on which gold has been found the rich stone should be followed. 
