Yields, &c. 
Yields from the Bismarck workings near the surface are said to have 
been as high as 2 oz. of gold per ton, and a slug of gold 1 oz. in weight 
is reported from a quartz spur: But the following returns give the value 
of the whole formation in bulk, including big and small quartz spurs with 
included mullock taken 4 feet wide in places. June, 1909 : 48 tons for 
17 oz. 16 dwt. 10 gr. of gold. July, 1909 : 73 tons for 18 oz. 7 dwt. 
20 gr. 
Yields of 7 oz. of gold from small parcels of stone are reported from 
the Little Nell; such ore is probably from a rich spur. At present infor¬ 
mation about this reef is scanty but the amount of sloping visible from the 
workings near the surface shows that a good payable shoot was mined in 
past years. 
The reef may then be said to be similar in structure to the Prince of 
Wales, Black Reef and others along the belt, bulging or pinching accord¬ 
ing to the strata traversed, and at times subject to the influence of “ in¬ 
dicator ” slates. Sinking is necessary to exploit both the Bismarck and 
Little Nell which have so far only been slightly worked. The company 
has a 10-head battery on the mine, which is at present being kept going by 
the tribute party. Splendid timber for all mining uses is readily 
obtained. 
\_Refort sent in 28.7.09.] 
AURIFEROUS SLATES, GOLDSBOROUGH, NEAR DUNOLLY. 
By A. M. Howitt. 
Skene and party's workings are situated at Nuggety Gully, 300 yards 
east of Whittaker’s allotment 19, parish of Painswick, about 1 mile S. 
of Goldsborough Railway Station. The workings are in a black slate 
formation of Lower Ordovician age; some narrow beds of yellow to white 
and grey slate are intermixed with the dark variety. The strike of the 
strata is N. 20 deg. W., and the dip is eastward, and ranges from 75 
deg. to 80 deg. To the east of the black slate is a harder green slate 
which at times is seen in the south workings as a footwall to a large 
quartz reef. 
At.the source of Nuggety Gully lead, and close to the gully, some 
shafts were sunk without success many years ago* on the black slate in 
search of a reef which was supposed to have shed the large nuggets in 
the lead. At that time no attention was directed to the possible value 
of the slate itself, although it gives prospects of fine gold wherever tried 
along the line. 
About six months ago Mr. Thomas Skene obtained favorable prospects 
up the hill side from the gully, and subsequently sunk two* shafts each 
to a depth of 40 feet. Although good prospects were got the gold is 
finely divided, and has evidently partly originated from the slate apart 
from the quartz veins. Skene and party are now sinking to the north 
on a slate and quartz-vein formation, which gives prospects of gold in 
the dish. A sample of black and other slate with quartz taken from the 
shaft w r as assayed, the return was only 16 grains of gold per ton (assay 
No. 294) 
