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The following extract from a report* on the mine by Mr. R. A. F. 
Murray, formerly Government Geologist, may be added :—“ The Toom- 
bon mine is one of the oldest mines in the district, and yielded well manv 
years ago. The last company received many thousands of pounds in divi¬ 
dends, but left off work on finding poor stone at one of the levels. The 
present company got a continuation of good stone at a deep level, and are 
now working profitably, though under difficult circumstances as regards 
mining. The main shaft is 600 feet deep, perpendicular, and from a 
cross-cut thence the lode has been followed down a further distance of 
400 feet on its north-eastern underlie by means of an underlie shaft. At 
about 800 feet a slide throws the lode back south-west, so that from the 
No. 9 and No. 10 levels cross-cuts have been made back from the under¬ 
lie shaft. The shoot of payable stone is about 300 feet in length, and 
had a southerly pitch down to about 700 feet. Thence, as described by 
the manager, Mr. Gilbert, it goes down straight, then pitches northerly 
to No. 9 level, and now at No. 10 level, 1,000 feet from surface, 
resumes its southerly pitch.” 
“ At No. 10 level the lode looks very well, being up to 4 feet thick. 
well-defined, and going down strongly underfoot.This 
mine appears likely to continue remunerative to great depths, and the 
grand desideratum is a good main shaft, so as to command the lode at a 
depth on its pitch and underlay.” 
The following table gives a list of yields so far as I have been able 
to compile them from official and mine records, which, although not com¬ 
plete, are the most reliable available. 
* 
Report on Recent Gold Mining Developments between Wood’s Point and Walhalla. Spec. Rept. 
Department Mines, 1896, p. 3. 
