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of the reef is N.W., its dip S.W. at about 60 deg. The reef outcropped 
on a little rise, and mere are numerous spurs crossing the country rock on 
both sides of the reef, which follows a well-defined fault line. 
The length of reef worked at the surface was 150 feet, and it is re¬ 
ported that at the bottom of the workings the reef maintained the same 
length. The quartz ranged from 1 foot to 20 feet thick, and the whole 
of the stone is said to have been removed from the surface down to a 
depth of 750 feet on the dip of the reef, and to have been crushed. As 
over 100,000 tons of stone was raised and treated, this means that an 
average thickness of about a feet of quartz was removed from the lode. 
Mr. Martin, the former manager of the company, states that about 43,000 
ozs. of gold was obtained altogether from the reef. This would give 
an average of about 8| dwts. of gold per ton of quartz. 
The reef was worked from 1862 to 1880. Since then the mine has 
been idle. Shafts were sunk so as to cut the reef on its dip, and the 
last shaft sunk is 650 feet deep, and 260 feet away from the outcrop of 
ihe reef. 
From the bottom of the shaft a cross-cut was driven 109 feet , south 
westerly to the reef. The shaft cut the reef about 440 feet from the 
surface. 
This shaft is on the edge of a wide flat, and any future shafts would 
have to be sunk in the flat itself. Mr. Martin states that in the lowest 
workings the reef was well-defined, and that the water was not heavy, 
as an 8-inch lift was ample to deal with it. The tailings from this mine 
were saved and were worked over by a party of Chinamen soon after the 
mine was closed down. Mr. Stewart is at present engaged in cyaniding 
the tailings, and he has treated about 60,000 tons for a return of gold 
worth 17,000. There are still 30.000 tons to be dealt with that con¬ 
tain much pyrites, and that will require special treatment. To arrive 
at the original value of the quartz, the gold won from the tailings has to 
be added to that recovered by the several companies who originally 
crushed the quartz. Assuming that the 30,000 tons of tailings will yield 
the same proportion of gold as the 60,000 treated already, they would return 
^8,500. Added to the jQi 7,000 from the 60,000 "tons, this would be 
^25,500 as the yield by cyaniding. If the gold extracted by the China¬ 
men in the first instance was equal to this, then the gross yield would be 
^51,000 of gold for 90,000 tons of tailings. By adding a tenth as the 
proportion of gold that escaped in the slimes, or was washed away, this 
would work out about 3 dwts. per ton additional, say nj dwts. per ton 
for the stone as broken out. The gross quantity crushed is estimated 
at 100,000 tons, because the tailings account for 90,000, and at least 
10,000 must have escaped by being washed away, and as slimes. 
This mine appears, from Mr. Martin’s statement, to' have ceased work 
on account of a fall of rock, the result of having insufficient timber to sup¬ 
port the ground. The reef is said to have been highly mineralized, and 
to have carried payable gold in the bottom of the workings. 
To re-open the mine would require a new shaft to the south-west of the 
present deepest shaft, and the old workings would have to be unwatered. 
The shoot of quartz worked occupies a channel which has not been pro¬ 
spected to anv great extent. At 600. feet a level was extended S.E. for 
about 200 feet along the course of a well marked channel, but only a little 
quartz was met with. Further prospecting at the surface along the course 
of the channel appears to be desirable. All the gold found at Burke’s 
Flat was very fine grained, and nothing of a nuggettv or coarse nature 
was found there, although it is close to localities that furnished some of 
the largest nuggets found in the State. 
