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The bed consists of grey sandstone and slate of grey colour; some of 
the sandstone weathers brown on account of the carbonate of iron present- 
The soil is red. 
A shaft 920 feet deep ha,s been sunk. AlJ the 520-ft. level a reef was 
cut in a cross-cut 25 feet E. of shaft. It was 2 feet thick of mixed quartz 
and country rock. A small reef lying in the bedding plane was worked 
for 200 feet N. of the cross-cut and S. of the cross-cut for a length of 
300 feet. In the W. cross-cut and N. of the shaft the country dips E- 
A fault occurs also dipping E. From the 200-foot level to the 6oo-foot 
level a reef about 400 feet long was worked profitably, the manager in¬ 
forms me. 
At the 780-foot level in cross-cut E. from shaft the rocks dip E. at 58 0 .. 
This cross-cut is no feet long. In the south level the pitch is southerly 
at about 20°. A quartz reef has been followed in this level for 150 feet. 
Tt was as much as 8 feet thick on the N. end, but tapered out to nothing 
in a southerly direction. At 400 feet south of the cross-cut a “floor” or 
fault lying at a low angle was cut. It dips E. This “floor” has been 
followed up on its course in a W. direction, and a little quartz with occa¬ 
sional colour of gold was obtained along the “ floor.” At 200 feet S. 
of the main cross-cut in the level a cross-cut has been extended E. for 80 
feet in much-disturbed country. At the shaft the pitch of the country 
appears to be northerly. 
At the 920-foot level the beds dip E. at 85 0 ; the country consists of 
slate and sandstone much more settled 'than in the higher levels, and of 
more favorable appearance. The upper workings of tHis mine shew 
many faults and much displacement, and it is probably owing to these 
movements of the rocks that auriferous country is exposed at the surface. 
The shaft is in country that dips E., and therefore any cross-cutting: for 
centre-country must be to the W. Very little has been done so ; far in 
the way of cross-cutting to the W. 
As the more productive Bendigo zone lies deeper down than the pre¬ 
sent workings, the shaft should be deepened. The site of the shaft is a 
good one, because the pitch falls away from it to N. and S., and it is in 
E. dipping country rock. Should this mine enter a more productive zone 
at deeper levels, it would be the means of opening up an auriferous zone 
that is masked by barren country except at this spot. 
[.Report sent in 5.12.06.~\ 
THE METEOR MINE, NEWTOWN, NEAR SCARSDALE. 
By John Easton. 
The Meteor Gold Mine is situated about 1 mile to the east of the 
township of Newtown, near Scarsdale. 
The oountry rock consists of grey sandstones, mudstones, and slates of . 
Ordovician age. Thie general strike is N. 3 0 W. 
A main shaft has been sunk, and two cross-cuts opened out at 350 and 
400 feet, both driven to the east. 
The No. 1 cross-cut is at a depth of 350 feet, and is 223 feet in 
length. At about 80 feet from the shaft it passes through a well-defined 
anticlinal fold. The strata on the west side all dip at from 8o° to 85° 
to the west, and on the east side, to the end of the cross-cut, dip east at 
from 70° to 8o°. The pitch of the fold is about 20° to the south. At 
69 feet east of the shaft a drive has been made 171 feet south, along the 
