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Subjoined are the details of returns of gold from the Royal Standard 
quarry :— 
Return Showing Gold Yields from Royal Standard Mine, 
Wood's Point. 
Year. 
Date of Crushing. 
Yield. 
1866 
1st June 
oz. dwt. 
19 0 
16th ,, 
1,755 10 
» 1 
‘22nd ,, 
1,179 0 
1 1 
7th July 
1,861 0 
ft 
t f 
19th ,, 
3rd Aug. 
1,231 10 
1,360 10 
n ••• 
17th ,, 
1,363 10 
t> 
31st ,, 
1,151 0 
it 
14th Sept. 
706 10 
ii 
28th ,, 
726 10 
12th Oct. 
727 10 
11 
26th ,, 
681 0 
11 .. ... 
9th Nov. 
873 0 
* ... ... 
23rd ,, 
635 0 
w 
8th Dec. 
606 0 
II 
2‘2nd ,, 
411 0 
1867 . 
8th Jan. 
197 0 
Total 
... .»• ••• ••• 
15,374 10 
{13.12.09.} 
THE TOOMBON MINE, WALHALLA DISTRICT, 
GTPPSLAND. 
Bv W. Baragwanath. 
The Toombon mine is situated on a small creek of the same name 
about half-a-mile east of the Aberfeldy River, of which the Toombon 
Creek is a tributary. Work at the mine was commenced early in the seven¬ 
ties. and was continued, with but short interruptions, until the end of 
1897. 
The chief interest attached to the mine lies in the fact that it is situated 
midway between the well-known gold-fields of Walhalla and Wood’s Point, 
and that, with the exception of the Walhalla mines, profitable workings 
were carried out to a greater depth than on any other reef in Gippsland. 
The shaft—the sill of which is 1,950 feet above sea level—is situated 
on the western edge of the Walhalla-Wood’s Point geo-synclinal fold in 
strata consisting of alternate thin beds of slate and sandstone* with 
occasional larger sandstone bars. About 10 chains east of the shaft runs 
a belt of fossiliferous grit which is traceable for several miles northerly 
and southerly, and which forms the eastern limit of the proved auriferous 
* Locally called elran. 
