165 
An assay yielded as follows :— 
Field No. of 
Specimen. 
Assay No. of 
Specimen. 
Description. 
Gold 
per ton. 
Silver 
per ton. 
Antimony. 
4 
407 
Fe rr ugi 11 ou s fi n e sa n d - 
stone and shale, 
with thread quartz 
veins 
ozs. dwts. grs. 
0 8 3 
ozs. dwts. grs. 
0 1 4 
percentage. 
9-1 
Locality No. 5.—Six chains south-east of locality No. 4, a small 
prospecting cut has been put in across a crushed siliceous sandstone and 
grey shale formation. 
An assay yielded: — 
Field No. of 
Specimen. 
Assay No. of 
Specimen. 
Description. 
Gold 
per ton. 
Silver 
per ton. 
Antimony. 
5 
40S 
Ferruginous quartz 
and sandstone 
ozs. dwts. grs. 
0 5 21 
ozs. dwts. vrs. 
0 0 5 
percentage. 
0-4 
Locality No. 6 is situated 1 chain south-east of locality No. 5, and 
2 chains north-west of the main workings. No work has been done on 
this outcrop, from which the original assay No. 427 was obtained. 
Assays : — 
Field No. of 
Specimen. 
Assay No. of 
Specimen. 
Description. 
Gold 
per ton. 
Silver 
per ton. 
Antimony. 
Original 
sample 
ozs. dwts grs. 
ozs. dwts. grs. 
percentage. 
247 
Ferruginous and sili¬ 
ceous sandstone 
0 7 19 
0 0 0 
0 
6 
(check 
sample) 
409 
Do. 
0 7 4 
0 0 9 
. 
2-2 
6a 
410 
Ironstone and ferru¬ 
ginous, siliceous 
sandstone 
0 14 8 
I 
0 1 16 
0 4 
The assay samples were obtained from a regular line nearly half- 
a-mile long, but there is not sufficient evidence to be obtained from the 
prospecting holes and the small exposed outcrops to show whether this 
is one continuous cross formation. The majority of the veins, whether 
quartz or ironstone, cross the beds at all. angles, and possibly these gold 
deposits are on a line of disturbance along which minor fracturing and 
Assuring has occurred, when crossing certain beds, as the crushed siliceous 
sandstone and shale, but the several outcrops must be further prospected 
before a definite opinion can be expressed. Seven of the assays (Nos. 1, 
ia, 2, 4, 5, 6, 6a) from similar formations give an average of gold, 
9 dwt. 2J gr. ; and silver, 5 dwt. 1 gr., per ton, and 4-} per cent, of 
antimony. The width of the auriferous formations would average 
approximately 1 foot. I consider localities Nos. 1 and 2 well worth 
further prospecting, and more assays should be taken from them. Mr. 
Bayly, of the departmental laboratory, made the assays, and suggests 
further experimental work with a view to testing the amenability of these 
ores to treatment by cyanide, in order to determine their economic value. 
[Report sent in 21.7.04.'] 
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