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promise well; and its low angle of dip north is most favorable for work¬ 
ing, as it will not reach water level for some distance. With cross veins 
dipping at a low angle, such as the one in question, there is every facility 
for prospecting for others by means of a vertical shaft on the indicator 
line. 
At the time of inspection I was informed that 160 ozs. of gold had 
been won, 60 ozs. of which came from the cross vein. 
The workings at present are small and consist of an underlay tunnel 
following the gold-bearing cross vein as it cuts the indicator beds. On 
this cross vein the yields have varied from fine prospects up to rich 
nuggety patches, as shown in the longitudinal section. 
A shaft is now being sunk at a point above and a little to the north 
of the north face in the tunnel, and later on a shaft further north is to 
he sunk as the claim develops. 
About 370 feet north from the tunnel mouth the indicator would pass 
abreast of Pyman’s cross reef, a large quartz reef striking W. 30 deg. N., 
and dipping north-east at an angle of 40 deg. This reef is in a lease 
area which surrounds the prospecting claim, and from spurs of quartz in 
its footwall yields of 8 dwt. up to 1 oz. 18 dwt. are reported to have been 
won. 
Just outside Pyman’s allotments and close by to the north-west, two 
otner reefs have been mined, and are here mentioned to show the fre¬ 
quency of gold occurrences in reefs and veins on Pyman’s Hill. 
Before concluding, it may be added that the strike of this Homebush 
reef and indicator belt would carry it southwards along with the Home- 
bush lead which proved so consistently rich, and on towards the head of 
the Lamplough lead, which it would cut. Northwards the belt would pass 
close to and east of the last workings on the Homebush lead. 
In order to see if the slate itself, apart from the quartz veins, is 
auriferous, a sample of red arenaceous pitted slate free from any vein- 
qiartz was taken from amongst the several beds and submitted for assay. 
Mr. Bayly gave the following report (517/09):— 
Red mottled with white decomposed slate from Messrs. Nicholl and 
Stratman’s indicator claim.— 
Gold, 7 dwt. 4 gr. per ton. 
Silver, trace per ton. 
Individual assays gave— 
Gold, 3 dwt. 22 gr. per ton. 
Gold, 5 dwt. 21 gr. per ton. 
Gold, 7 dwt. 19 gr. per ton. 
Gold, 11 dwt. 4 gr. per ton. 
The sample contained much angular free gold. The small patches of 
clear quartz were heavily impregnated with gold. 
{Report sent in Z/.dhop.] 
MARINER’S REEF, MARYBOROUGH. 
By A. M. Howitt. 
The lease (No. 5486) is 49 a. 2 r. 29 p. in area, and in addition to the 
main Mariner’s reef, includes the Mariner’s North, Gympie, Soldier’s Hill, 
and Cole’s lines of reef, all of which have at times been worked profitably, 
but to no great depth, and which are all, except the Gvmpie large reef 
formations, dipping westerly towards Mariner’s line. Within the lease on 
Soldier’s Hill there are two mining claims, Hawkes and Peel, and Hawkes 
and Roxburgh, to the south. 
