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Like many of the lodes of this district there is a lode channel with 
auriferous shoots of quartz at intervals. Between these shoots there is 
either a blank with no quartz or else the quartz is not payably auriferous. 
This reef was found in very, early times (in the fifties) and was dis¬ 
covered soon after the Blue Bell Reef, Palmerston. Extremely rich 
crushings were obtained and the reef was worked through a long series of 
years with great profit. There is no reason to believe that its gold-pro¬ 
ducing capabilities have become exhausted. The earlier workers have, 
however, removed every bit of quartz they could reach and make pay, and 
any further prospecting to be effective will involve the sinking of a shaft 
to the south and west of the shoots so far as they have been worked. 
Surfacing has been worked down the hill slope from the principal workings 
but the gullies appear not to have been worked for alluvial gold. The late 
Mr. Biddington made an effort to reach payable stone through the old 
workings, and a crushing of 50 tons is reported to have yielded a few dwts. 
of gold per ton. Taking into account the splendid record made by the 
Reform Reef there appears to be good grounds for expecting gold at lower 
levels than have yet been reached on this line of reef. Hitherto no fossils 
from these beds have been found by means of which their true horizon 
could be determined. Mr. Easton, however, who is engaged in preparing 
a. geological plan of this district has been fortunate enough to discover some 
graptolites which are in Mr. T. S. Hall's hands for determination and 
which will probably afford a clue. 1 
[Report sent in 25.10.06.] 
THE LORD OF THE HILLS REEF. GROWLER'S CREEK, 
WANDILIGONG. 
By E. J. Dunn , F.G.S., Director , Geological Survey. 
This reef is at the head of Lord of the Hills Gully which runs into 
Growler's Creek, and is about a mile from Wandiligong and. due east. 
The country rock consists of yellow and pink sandstones and slate. The 
soil is red. The strike of the reef is a little west of north, and it is nearly 
vertical in dip. The workings extend for several hundred feet along the 
surface; auriferous shoots are worked at intervals with barren portions 
between. The pitch of the country is southward, and the pitch of the 
auriferous shoots is also southerly. 
Carlyle’s line branches from the west side of the above reef and it 
widens out from the reef in a northerly direction. The Warwick line also 
branches off from the east side of the reef and recedes from it in a 
southerly direction. The pitch of the country rock is to the south. The 
shoots of gold also pitch in the same direction. Tunnels have been driven 
in to work the reef at a moderate depth, but no work has been done below 
100 feet from the surface. It is probable that at lower levels the shoots 
worked at the surface or similar shoots of payable stone, with barren spaces 
between, would be found. The quartz ranged from a few inches to 3 or 4 
feet in width where worked, but it seldom exceeded 2 feet in thickness. 
Details of the yields could not be obtained. A party of three men are at 
present working on this line of reefs. 
[.Report sent in 18.10.06']. 
(1) Mr. Hall found that the graptolites were too fragmentary to be specifically determined, but say s 
that they show the rocks to be Lower Ordovician.— d.j.m. 
