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dyke was met with, and the reef became more broken. Seventy feet north¬ 
east of No. 2 reef, or 570 feet from the entrance, No. 3 reef was met with. 
This reef was about 12 inches wide with a westerly dip of 45 0 where 
cut and carried payable stone. The main operations of the company 
were then confined to driving north-west and south-east along this No. 3 reef 
and stoping above and below the adit level. The main drive southerly car¬ 
ried good stone for 40 feet from the cross-cut. The dyke on the foot wall 
was of a red colour, probably due to decomposition of iron pyrites. A 
series of very rich veins was found coming into the reef channel from 
the east. Sixty-five feet south of the cross-cut a small break or vugh 
occurred in the lode-channel; 80 feet south of the cross-cut a vein dipped 
towards the main reef at an angle of 30°, and was worked for 
about 15 feet, when it became thin. At no feet the reef appears to end 
or to be cut off by concentric breaks near the edge of the dyke. Short 
cross-cuts south of this point failed to prove the continuance of the 
formation. Judging by the surface outcrop the southern edge of the 
dyke will be about 60 feet ahead of this face. Northwards along the 
reef the drive was put in a distance of 200 feet. At 162 feet from the 
cross-cut a crosscourse was met with; this displaced the reef about 2 feet 
to the east going north. 
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Fig. 35.—Section showing the extent of stoping on No. 3 reef, Coronation Adit, and the drive 
along the Girl’s reef from the Tubal Cain Adit. 
The stopes over the level were upwards of 200 feet in length, and at 
a height of 60 feet above the level the decomposed dyke was met with. 
Very rich gold was obtained near the junction of the decomposed and un- 
decomposed dyke. In the undecomposed dyke a large body of quartz, 
highly mineralized but of low gold value, was met north of the main rise ; 
the reef in the stopes had a westerly dip of 71 0 . At 80 feet above 
the level a rich leader was worked on the western side of the main reef. 
The reef in the stopes varied greatly, at times white, again it would be 
semi-opaline, or again black, the gold not appearing to favour any par¬ 
ticular class of stone, but being distributed throughout. 
Details of these workings are supplied in Appendix B attached. 
Appendix A. 
The following yields are taken from the Reports of the Mining 
Surveyors and Registrar: — 
1808 ... 70.3 tons yielded'214 oz. 11 dwt. 100 feet deep. 
1869 ... 48 tons yielded 11 oz. 9 dwt. 
