265 
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Perseverance Reef. 
About J mile north-west from the Home\vard Bound Reef is the 
Perseverance Reef. The country rock is micaceous schist and quartzite 
(altered Ordovician strata). A shaft has been sunk 150 feet to the level 
of a tunnel that has been driven, in from the northern side of the ridge. 
The reef strikes N. 15 deg. E., and dips to west at 75 deg. The reef 
here was from 1 foot to 1 ft. 6 in. in thickness, and was worked to a 
depth of 100 feet. The shoot of gold was about 100 feet in length at 
the surface and 40 feet at the bottom of the workings, and had a pitch 
southward. Much galena and iron pyrites occurred in the quartz. Strike 
of country rock is about N. and S., and dip about 78 deg. to E., so that 
the reef crosses the country at a small angle. This mine v r as v r orked 
about twenty years ago, andi the returns are said to have ranged from 4 ozs. 
to 10 dwts. cvf gold per ton of stone. 
Bon Accord Reef. 
The shaft is stated to have been sunk to 400 feet, and a cross-cut driven 
about 400 feet towards the Homeward Bound Reef. If the cross-cut has 
been driven in the direction, and for the length stated, it should be within a 
very short distance of the Homeward Bound! Reef. The dip of the Bon 
Accord Reef is 80 deg. to W. and the thickness of quartz is 2 to 4 feet. 
The country rock is highly indurated sandstone, &c. ; hornfels occurs in 
bands and small quartz veins ramify through the country rock. This 
mine v T as worked by an English company up to about five years ago. 
The extreme north-western face of the tunnel now T being driven, is within 
about 100 feet of where the downward continuation of the Bon Accord 
Reef should be cut. This 100 feet should be driven due west for the 
purpose of intersecting the reef. 
Table of Quartz Crushed and Gold Obtained from the Bon 
Accord Reef . 
Year. 
Tons 
of 
Quartz. 
Gold. 
Depth 
in 
Feet. 
Year. 
Tons 
of 
Quartz. 
Gold. 
Depth 
in 
Feet. 
ozs. dwts. 
ozs. dwts. 
1866 ... 
200 
150 
0 
1882 ... 
216 
108 
0 
• • • 
5? ... 
132 
99 
0 
?? ... 
101 
52 
10 
... 
,, ... 
235 
188 
0 
1883 ... 
158 
142 
4 
150 
1867 ... 
383 
318 
10 
1884 ... 
107 
103 
1 
130 
33 • • • 
212 
88 
0 
5 ? ... 
176 
89 
17 
150 
55 • • • 
300 
130 
0 
80 
5 ? ... 
182 
136 
12 
165 
33 ... 
305 
178 
0 
100 
1885 ... 
43 
18 
4 
160 
1870 ... 
380 
100 
0 
... 
5 > ... 
113 
57 
6 
160 
1871 ... 
300 
105 
0 
100 
5 ? ... 
64 
76 
16 
170 
3) 
280 
140 
0 
80 
1886 ... 
150 
186 
13 
200 
33 • • • 
220 
160 
10 
80 
? 5 ... 
150 
340 
0 
300 
1872 ... 
180 
68 
0 
1887 ... 
112 
187 
10 
240 
33 • • • 
250 
62 
10 
70 
? 5 ... 
194 
264 
12 
250 
33 • • • 
170 
25 
10 
70 
... 
117 
204 
15 
230 
1873 ... 
80 
64 
0 
80 
1888 ... 
156 
215 
0 
260 
33 • • • 
130 
24 
10 
50 
... 
194 
264 
12 
250 
33 • • • 
21 
5 
5 
40 
1889 ... 
156 
241 
16 
300 
1874 ... 
110 
55 
18 
50 
1890 ... 
244 
350 
0 
350 
1876 ... 
42 
14 
14 
... 
J5 ... 
140 
182 
2 
350 
1881 ... 
104 
15 
12 
• • • 
33 — 
144 
129 
12 
500 
33 • • • 
114 
74 
2 
80 
1882 ... 
120 
60 
0 
. .. 
7,185 
5,378 
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