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THE MORNING STAR MINE, ALEXANDRA. 
By E. J. Dunn , F.G.S., late Director , Geological Survev. 
This mine is situate on the west side of U.T. Creek, about i mile 
west of Alexandra. A 5-head battery is being erected on the bank of the 
creek, and a tunnel is to be driven westerly into the hill, along the 
course of a diorite dyke, which cuts through the Silurian slates and sand¬ 
stones. The dyke strikes W. 20° N. and dips southward at 45 0 . 
and is from 6 to 20 feet thick in different parts of its course. The walls 
of the dyke are most irregular ; thin quartz veins carrying gold ramify 
through the decomposed dyke, and the whole is broken out and crushed. 
On the east side of the hill two shafts, 30 feet deep, have recently been 
sunk. On the top of the hill, which is about 150 feet high, is an old 
shaft, and for about 12 miles down the western slope are old workings. 
The deepest shaft is aDout 120 feet to the bottom, and the tunnel is to 
be driven below this so as to open up deeper ground by winzes. A 
quartz reef 5 inches thick, and striking S. 40° E., intersects the dyke 
near the deepest shaft. 
The small gullies on the north and south of the dyke have been worked 
for alluvial gold, the former for about 7 chains in length below the reef. 
Both gullies run westerly into Johnson's Creek. 
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THE ROYAL STANDARD MINE, NEAR WOOD S POINT. 
By 0 . A. L. Whitelcrtv. 
The Royal Standard mine is situated 12 miles east of the township 
of Wood’s Point, on the southern side, and near the head of Standers' 
Creek, an affluent of the Goulburn River. 
The remarkable history of the discovery and development of this reef 
has probably been the subject of discussion on nearly every mining field in 
the world. In the early sixties, Messrs. Singleton and Stander, while 
searching for lost horses, discovered the outcrop of the reef, which pro¬ 
truded several feet above the surface of the hillside. It is said that the 
gold was so coarsely disseminated through the matrix of the reef that it was 
plainly visible from over 100 feet distant. Under great difficulties, 
crushing machinerv was installed on Standers’ Creek, 800 feet below 
the reef outcrop, and crushing was commenced in May, 1866. 
During the first six months, 2,000 ounces in excess of half-a-ton of 
gold was obtained, and ^44.800, equal to ^£28 per 1-1600 share, was 
disbursed in dividends. At a depth of 70 feet the gold was lost, and has 
not since been recovered. 
In all, twenty-one adit levels have been driven towards the spur on 
which the reef outcropped, but two only of these have intersected the line 
of the lode. These, known as Nos. 13 and 14, are approximately on the 
same level, about 140 feet below the outcrop. No. 13 cuts the lode line 
in the direction of its pitch, and north of the quarry from which the rich 
stone was taken there is distinct evidence of faulting (probably by a cross- 
