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bedding, which at this point is strongly to the east, and has a prevailing 
easterly dip to the end of the cross-cut. Some of these spurs yielded 
good gold in patches. 
A considerable amount of surface work has been done for some 
hundreds of feet to the north of the present workings, on what appears 
to have been a mass of spurry country. These workings were carried down 
to some 300 feet, and some very good gold is said to have been obtained. 
Mr. McLeish, the manager for the company, informed me that in the 
old surface workings, about 900 and odd feet to the east of the present 
shaft, an indicator, in the form of a seam of mineral, about ij inches in 
thickness, was worked to a depth of about 125 feet, and that some 
exceedingly coarse ana rich gold was obtained from the quartz in the 
vicinity of this indicator, but he has not yet been able to locate same in 
the present workings. 
\Report sent in 25.8.05 .] 
STAR OF THE EAST MINE, BERRINGA. 
By John Easton. 
The Star of the East mine is situated about 3 miles due east of the 
township of Berringa, and on the south side of Mount Misery Creek, in 
the parish of Lynchfield, and is at present being worked by a local 
syndicate, which has two men employed in prospecting operations. 
The country rock is Ordovician strata, composed chiefly- of white, grey, 
and brownish slates and sandstones, with occasional beds of micaceous 
sandstones and greenish slates. It has been folded into synclinals and 
anticlinals. The prevailing dip, however, is to the east. This can be 
noticed for some distance westward. The general strike is about 
N. 13 0 W. 
The Star of the East reef is -shown on the geologically-coloured parish- 
plan as the Cockatoo Line of Reef, and was originally worked some 42 
years ago along the outcrop. Numerous shallow shafts and open cuts 
have been made from Mount Misery Creek for fully a mile to the south, 
but these operations do not appear to have been extended to a greater 
depth than about 30 feet, and, as most of this work was done many years 
ago, no records regarding yields or amounts crushed are obtainable. 
Mr. J. Aird, the manager for the present syndicate, informs me that 
the outcrop immediately over the present workings is reported to have 
yielded as high as 7 oz. to the ton. About 30 chains further south, a 
parcel of ore is known to have yielded J oz. of gold per ton. 
Several small crushings have of recent years been taken from the two 
shafts, shown on the accompanying plan, to the north of the main tunnel, 
and some chains to the west of the main outcrop. These were extracted 
from several east and west spurs, which pitch to the north at from 25 0 to 
30°, and vary from 6 to 18 inches in thickness, with the strata dipping 
about 67° to the east. These spurs were worked to a depth of 60 feet by 
means of a shaft. Yields up to 6 dwts. per ton were obtained from them. 
The last crushing from this shaft was taken out by a party of tributers 
who obtained 3 dwts. to the ton from 18 tons. Mr. Bradford also crushed 
a parcel from a surface trench a few chains further to the south, and 
obtained 7 dwts. per ton. These are the only crushings treated from this 
lease of late years. 
