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capped with from 2 to 3 feet of “reef-wash” (clay, with angular frag¬ 
ments of quartz) like that from which gold is obtained around Dunolly. 
The working of such deposits (surfacing) has led to the finding of many 
fine nuggets. Alluvial gold is obtained from deposits along the present 
creeks, and from deeper leads under extensive alluvial deposits. It is 
also found in the gravels which cap low hills in the locality. These gravels 
appear to be the remnants of a once continuous deposit. 
Just below the workings at Patchy Flat on the western sides of White 
Hill and Spider’s Hill, and ofa the eastern side of Gooseberry Hill, there 
is a thick deposit of these gravels, flanking or capping the ridges of older 
rocks. They are composed principally of small, well water-worn quartz 
pebbles, with s,ome rounded boulders of quartz measuring 18 inches to 2 
feet in diameter. In places the gravels are cemented, and form a fer 
ruginous conglomerate. 
From the appearance of old workings these high-level gravels have 
yielded much gold, and gullies trending from them have been rich. These 
gravels were not noted on the up stream side of the workings at Patchy 
Flat, so it is probable that the gold of this place has been derived directly 
from local quartz, and that most of it has not been transported far from 
the spot where it is now being found. This inference is supported by the 
angular character of the quartz in the wash of the workings. 
The sketch plan already mentioned shews that the United Kingdom 
reefs, about one mile to the south, and the Spread Eagle reefs, about i\ 
miles to the north, and Patchy Flat, are practically on the same line. 
This circumstance should encourage miners to prospect the unworked 
alluvial ground near the site of the rush. 
[Report sent in 5-6.oy.~\ 
THE WAREEK ALLUVIAL RUSH, NEAR MARYBOROUGH. 
By A. M . Howitt. 
The Wareek alluvial rush was opened by Messrs. Dellar and Craig, who 
found gold in an old abandoned shaft on the cross roads at allotments 
Nos. i5 A and 19® of VI A ., parish of Wareek, county of Talbot It is about 
8 miles west of Maryborough (via Alma). 
On the attached sketch plan are shown the prospectors’, Nowell’s, and 
Diamond’s claims, and the 70-ft. shaft reported not bottomed; and also 
the Moonlight Flat lead, the nearest alluvial workings of importance, 
which are situated i| miles south-east of the rush in allotment C 4 . 
The sinking so far has been on a wide flat passing through allotments 
Nos. i5 A and 19 s of VI A ., and the adjacent Crown lands, and a narrow 
payable gutter has been proved for about 8 chains north of the prospectors, 
all being in allotment No. i5 A . (J. Porteous.) 
The gutter is about 12 feet in width near the prospectors’ claim, but has 
narrowed considerablv in some of the claims to the north. It takes slight 
bends in its course over a bed-rock of Ordovician ironsltone, slate, and soft 
sandstone. The deepest shaft on the rush is 51 feet ,and was sunk by 
Diamond and party. One and a half grains to the dish is reported to have 
been obtained off the bottom ; but where gold is being got near the 
prospectors’ claim the sinking is about 30 feet through iron-cemented fine 
gravel, sand, and clay, with occasional thin runs of white pug and fine 
white gravel; and then through 1 ft. 6 in. to 2 ft. 6 in. of iron-cemenfed 
sub-angular gravelly wash containing ironstone boulders, but very little 
