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A promising feature noticeable in the specimens shown me from the 
ueeper workings is that the gold is embedded in the solid stone, and not 
in flakes in the casing. Another favorable circumstance is that the Hope 
Mine, which operated in the same zone some hundreds of feet further 
north, worked payable quartz below waterdevel. 
The venture is one to be encouraged in every way, as there can be no 
doubt that prosperity will sooner or later result from the efforts of legiti¬ 
mate enterprise in the proper development of the numerous quartz bodies 
which exist in the locality. The main shaft is well placed for the further 
testing of the deposits already discovered, but I would venture to recom¬ 
mend that attention be not wholly confined to these—that the formations 
in centre country (the Christmas Line) 460 feet west of the main back 
be also prospected. This line of reefs—the most westerly surveyed by 
the Mines Department—is not being worked anywhere on the field, 
although at different points, and more especially in the vicinity of Norfolk 
Reef, it would appear to have all the geological conditions favorable to 
the deposit of auriferous quartz. 
[.Report sent in 12.3.06 .] 
THE OCCURRENCE OF QUARTZ SPURS IN WATTLE GULLY, 
CHEWTON. 
By E. J. Dunn , F.G.S., Director , Geological Survey. 
On the north side of the Chew ton to Castlemaine road, where it drosses 
Wattle Gully the Central Forest Creek dredge has bared the rocks. The 
alluvial ground removed was about 14 feet deep, and the rocks exposed 
consist of thick-bedded sandstone and slate beds. Strike of the country 
rocks, N. 15 0 W. j dip, 70° W. For a width of about 40 feet, quartz 
veins cut through the sandstone and slate beds in an, irregular manner. 
The spurs are from 15 inches thick downwards, and they are much stained 
with iron oxide. The quartz, when broken, has a favorable appearance 
for gold, and contains iron pyrites and galena thickly disseminated through 
it. A trial crushing should be made of quartz obtained a few feet from 
the surface, as the surface stone may have particles of alluvial gold in the 
cracks and crevices. 
The spurs extend right through the paddock for about 100 yards, in 
length, and they should be properly prospected now that thev are laid 
bare. The anticline passes three or four claims further to the east. 
[Report sent in 7.Q.06.] 
THE GOLDEN TOP MINE, BULLENGAROOK, COUNTY OF 
BOURKE. 
By Stanley B. Hunter. 
The Golden Top Mine is situated on Scotty’s (misnamed Goodman's) 
Creek, and about ij miles south-westward from Bullengarook. The sur¬ 
rounding country consists of steep to precipitous spurs and hills of brown 
