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Golding’s Reef. 
About half a-rnile east from the last-mentioned workings is the line of 
reef known as “Golding’s.” This reef was reported! upon by Mr. A. M. 
Howitt on 26th June, 1899, in connexion with an application for assist¬ 
ance under the Mines Development Act. In his report he states that the 
reef averages about 10 inches, in thickness, with an occasional bulge to 
2 feet. Some small crushings returning 1 oz. per ton seem to have been 
obtained, but nothing of any importance has at any time been found. 
For the purpose of testing this reef at a depth, Golding and party were 
allotted £200 under the Mines Development Act, but, I understand, no 
improvement upon the conditions experienced in the upper workings was 
found at a depth. 
In addition to the reefs mentioned), I saw several outcrops of reefs, all 
of which were small, ill-defined “ stringers ” or quartz leaders. 
In conclusion, I beg to state that nothing that was brought under my 
notice by Mr. Ewart could be considered of any great value from a mining 
point of view. The quartz formations are merely detached, ill-defined 
small strings of quartz, and the gold, when present, must have been in small 
bunches or shoots. It is possible that the quartz formations which lie in 
decomposed country near the surface, may become less disturbed below 
water-level, but I see no reason to anticipate any enrichment in their gold 
supply. 
The country seems to me to be worthy of a detailed geological survey, 
during which it is possible much valuable information regarding the forma¬ 
tion and gold supply may be obtained. 
[Report sent in 26 th July , 1904.] 
REPORT ON GLACIAL CONGLOMERATE OF SUPPOSED 
JURASSIC AGE IN PARISH OF WONGA WONGA, NEAR 
FOSTER, SOUTHERN GIPPSLAND, WITH PLAN (PLATE 
XXIX.). 
By W. H . Ferguson. 
The glacial conglomerate near Foster was firs.t noticed on 14th August, 
1902, on the Toora-Foster road at Chitt Creek, about four miles from 
Foster, a railway station on the South-Eastern line, 107J miles east of 
Melbourne. Between Foster and Toora the country, of Silurian and 
Jurassic strata, drops off steeply to the Cainozoic flats, consisting of 
alluvium, bayonet grass plains, and low heathy land. This steep slope 
extends eastwards bevond Welshpool, and has been attributed to faulting. 
This fault probably lowered the land on the south, so that the waters of 
Corner Inlet in places reached the foot of the escarpment. From Chitt 
Creek westward as far as Deep Creek, a distance of 2 miles, the conglo¬ 
merate has been noted in allotments Nos,. 6, 6a, 7 and 9, parish of Wonga 
Wonga. Glaciated stones were first noted in a small road cutting on the 
main road on the eastern side of Chitt Creek. These have apparently been 
derived from higher up the hillside. Metamorphosed Silurian rocks outcrop 
on the lower part of the hill slope above this small cutting. Thev are 
altered shales and sandstones ; some are highly micaceous and slightly 
schistose; others are hard contact quartzites, which resemble the contact 
rocks of the Strathbogie granite area in the North-Eastern district, though 
the alteration is not so' extreme as that of the rock at the Longwood railway 
