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quartz wash. Most of the coarser gold has come from a pipecla) and white 
fine gravel right on the bottom, but nice specks can be got 2 feet up in the 
wash. 
The gold is remarkably clean, heavy, and round; and is valued at 
about £4 is. 3d. per ounce. 
From the several claims where gold has been struck I may quote the 
following yields :—Machines of about ten loads each for 5 oz. 2 dwts., 
1 oz. 10 dwts., 3 oz., 5 oz. 10 dwts. ; and other machines for 4 dwts. and 
8 dwts. per load. In addition to mine yields, 5 dwts., 8 dwts., 14^ dwts., 
and 1 oz: 12 dwt. pieces were picked from the faces. 
Already there are two narrow gutters known, one (the eastern), being 
barren near the prospectors, and even now there is some doubt about the 
trend of me gutter a few claims north of the prospectors, and on past 
Hoskins’ claim, where it is very narrow. There is now a possibility of a 
gutter being traced west of Xo. 3 north claim. Eventually if the gutter 
is traced northward across the road into allotment 61 8 it should bend to the 
north-west and run under the basalt, which will first be met with in allot¬ 
ment 6i D ; and thence on to junction with the deep ground along the 
Bet Bet Valley, already kown to be 206 feet deep at Wareek township, 
about 2 miles distant. In allotment Xo. ii c , an old shaft, sunk through 
the basalt, sand and clav, is said to be over 70 feet deep. At the south end 
of the flat there should yet be room to trace the gutter, as 60 chains south 
of the prospectors’ claim, near the head of the gully, Xowell and party 
have obtained fair gold at a depth of 15 feet from a white water-worn 
quartz wash apparently derived from an old cross wash. 
This water-worn quartz wash has not so far been seen except just east 
of the prospectors’ claim at 20 feet deep, off the run of gold, but at least 
some few boulders of this wash should be traced in deeper ground near 
by. 
So far the results to the south have been disappointing, and so nearly 
all efforts are now concentrated to the north of the prospectors. A short 
shallow tributary coming in from the west, and carrying a fair sample of 
gold, is now being prospected, and its value should be known in a few days. 
It would junction with the main lead not far from the prospectors’ claim. 
The hills adjacent to. the flat are formed of Ordovician slates, sand¬ 
stones, and ironstone, striking X T . 15 deg. W. at a slight angle to the 
general trend of the gutter. No quartz reefs have as yet been worked 
near bv, but an indicator belt crosses the lead and tributary feeder 
mentioned above. 
\Report sent in 26.8.0j'}. 
THE MARYBOROUGH LEVIATHAN' GOLD MIXES 
LIMITED. 
By A. M. Howitt. 
The Leviatnan reefs are in the western Maryborough dyke belt, and 
the strata met with in this belt are mainly slates, sandstones of various 
textures, and quartzites, all of Ordovician age. 
The quartz reefs nearly follow Chinaman’s Flat Lead (parish of Mary¬ 
borough) from the head northwards to Timor. 
The beds strike about X. 15 deg. W., and where noted dip about 
60 deg. to 65 deg. east. 
