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the face in the south level the reef is 4 feet thick. The shoot of gold 
would be about 50 feet further south. For about 120 feet above this 
level the shoot of auriferous quartz has not been worked, but will pro¬ 
bably be stoped out by the Lord Nelson Company shortly. At the 
2,085-ft. level the cross-cut is run out south-west and the reef was cut 
at 360 feet from the shaft. At right angles from the shaft the distance 
to the reef channel would be about 200 feet. About 20 feet east of 
the reef is a dyke 10 inches thick, which runs about parallel with the 
leef. The reef is 1 ft. 6 in. thick where the cross-cut intersects it. 
Southward a level has been driven 700 feet along the reef. At 300 feet 
from the cross-cut the reef is about 4 feet thick, and is said to be payable. 
It widens out in places to 10 or 12 feet thick. At the end the reef has 
pinched again, the shoot going underfoot, as they all appear to pitch 
south. This shoot has been worked from the surface down to within 
120 feet of the 1,830-ft. level of this mine in the Lord Nelson mine, 
and it has yielded a large amount of gold. At 320 feet from the south 
end of this level a winze is down 15 feet; it is to be sunk to' 200 feet. 
The quartz at the south end of this level is stated to have yielded 8 dwts. 
of gold per ton of quartz. It is intended to sink the shaft another 200 
feet, so as to stope the reef upwards from that level. The gold is 
worth about ^3 5s. per oz. 
[Report sent in 4.3.09.] 
THE LORD NELSON MINE, ST. ARNAUD. 
By E. ]. Dunn , F.G.S., Director , Geological Survey. 
At the' surface, and within the lease, is a prominent outcrop of quartz, 
and the main shoot worked in the mine commences at the south end of 
this outcrop and pitches southward. The length of the shoot of payable 
quartz near the surface is 900 feet; in No. 19 level the length is 30a 
feet only, but it appears to again lengthen in the North Nelson mine. 
The shaft is 1,895 f ee t beep, and at the bottom level (No. 19) a 
cross-cut runs south-west for 450 feet, where the reef was cut. The 
beds of sandstone and slate strike N. 35 deg. W., and dip westwards at 
80 deg. The reef appears to have the same general strike as the country, 
except where it bulges, but the dip is flatter than the containing beds, 
being about 70 deg. to' the west. About 7 feet of the reef is payable 
at this point. A loop forms in the reef at this site that commences 20 
feet north of the cross-cut, and that rejoins the regular channel at 176 
feet south of the cross-cut. On the footwall the reef is 1 ft. 6 in. thick. 
The shoot goes underfoot at the south end of the loop. In the stopes 
12 feet above this level the reef is 7 feet thick, and in the north end of 
the stope, which is 20 feet long, the face shows 8 feet of quartz. 
At the 1,675-ft. level the cross-cut is driven diagonally west. The 
country dips west, and the reef also dips west, and is 8 feet thick. At 
150 feet north from the cross-cut the shoot of quartz cuts out and goes 
overhead. The level continues northward for 250 feet from the cross-cut. 
The hanging wall which is very regular strikes N. 35 deg. W., and dips 
75 deg. W. The reef runs with the strike of the country, but in dip it 
conforms with it in some parts and crosses it in other parts. 
