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It is 8 inches thick, and carries payable gold. The small vein is bent, and 
until driven upon the value cannot be determined, but it certainly is an 
encouraging feature. 
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Figure No. 17. 
Sketch Plan of the Lady Nelson Mine, St. Arnaud, showing Position of 
Auriferous Quartz Vein. 
The most pressing work to be done is to open out with the object 
of tracing this vein northward. Overhead, there is also 200 feet of 
unexplored country, and possibly favorable indications may lead up into 
this. 
[.Report sent in 14.10.09.] 
THE LADY NELSON MINE, ST. ARNAUD. 
By H. S. Whitelaw. 
The Lady Nelson Company possesses four leases (Nos 4926, 3921, 
5103, and Tailings Lease No. 233) surrounding Sebastopol Hill, about 
1 mile N.N.W. of the town of St. Arnaud. The workings to be described 
are situated about the centre of Lease No. 4926. Traversing these leases, 
generally in a north-westerly direction, are groups of reefs which have 
been profitably worked from the surface to water level (see report on St. 
Arnaud goldfield, 1898*). At the time of my visit attention was being 
paid to only two of these, the Rotten or Lady Nelson reef and the Black 
or Sebastopol reef. 
Detailed plans and sections were made, and these will be published 
at a later date. 
Rotten Reef. 
The Rotten reef at the surface is 20 feet west of the main shaft, and 
can be traced from the south boundary of the lease to Armenian Gully, 
Whitelaw, H. S., Report on the St. Arnaud Gold-field. Spec. Rept., Dept. Mines, 1898. 
