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The Red, White, and Blue Claim, McManus’s Paddock. 
This claim is about north-east from St. Arnaud, and 7 miles distant 
by the road. At this site there are some favorable looking quartz veins, 
the principal traceable for a few hundred feet in length. A shaft has 
been sunk 56 feet on it and some shallower holes have also been sunk 
The strike of the principal vein is N. W., dip E. The quartz is saccharoidal, 
and 15 inches thick. The gold is crystalline in character, and worth 
about £4. per oz. An interesting feature is that carbonate of bismuth is 
associated with the gold. Eight and a-half tons of quartz crushed yielded 
1 oz. 18 dwts. of gold per ton, so the prospectors informed me. The 
•country around consists of low undulations, and it is probable that other 
.auriferous veins exist. The gullies do not appear to have been tried for 
alluvial gold. Messrs. Roberts and Byerly are working here. 
McManus’s Reef. 
This reef is live chains to the west of the Red, White, and Blue 
claim. The country rock is reddish altered sandstone and slate. Distinct 
alteration is observable in some of the beds, and the appearances suggest 
that granite is at no great depth beneath. The strike of the reef is N.W., 
and its dip is N.E. It is from 12 inches to 3 feet thick, and m parts 
carries iron pyrites as well as a little carbonate of bismuth. This locality 
deserves further prospecting, but operations are hampered through the 
land being private property. 
The Little Boulder Claim. 
This claim is about 4 miles from St. Arnaud, in a direction a little 
east of north. It is right in mailee scrub, and is about 2 miles westerly 
from the Dodger Claim. The country rock is pipe-clay and soft, white 
sandstone. Flat spurs, which dip W. and pitch S., cut through the 
country. The thickest spur is from 3 to 4 feet thick. This also appears 
to be “ indicator ” country, and where the spurs cut the indicators the 
quartz is payable. Yields of 14 dwts. per ton have been obtained, and 
only shallow surface work has so far been done. Mr. R. Love is at 
present working here. The locality deserves to be prospected further. 
The Bell Rock Mine. 
This mine is about one and a-half miles north-east from St. Arnaud. 
The country rock is grey and black slates and grey sandstones, and the 
soil is red. The shaft is 450 feet deep. The Bell Rock reef strikes about 
east and west and dips 69 deg. S. It is from 3 to 4 feet thick. There 
is also a north and south reef that has been worked in shallow excava¬ 
tions northward for 200 feet from the east and west reef. The best 
quartz is said to have occurred where the two reefs joined. The north 
and south reef is very irregular, and appears to be a series of spurs in 
sandstone rather than a true lode. This mine has not been worked for 
many years. 
The Black Rock Mine. 
About 5 chains east of the BeH Rock shaft is the Black Rock shaft. 
The strike of the reef, which appears to have been about 2 feet thick, is 
N. 35 deg. W. The reef was well formed and regular; dip W. at 80 
deg., and further south in the workings it is 65 deg. W. An alluvial 
gully running east has been worked. There appears to be room here for 
further prospecting. No mining has been carried on for some years in 
these shafts. In this neighborhood the following quartz mines- were 
