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Mr. Nicholas informs me that there are twelve shafts, which have been sunk 
on a line of reef about 600 feet long. This reef is called the Latrobe reef, 
and it may be a continuation of the Eliza Hill reef. 
Stead’s Reef. 
About J mile westerly from the Eliza Hill mine there are several shafts 
which have been sunk on Stead's reef. Some of these are 100 feet deep. 
On the little rise to the north of the whim shaft the sandstone and slate beds 
dip at 62 deg. to the east. The reef dips W. at 72 deg. The pitch of the 
country is 22 deg. to the north. In the whim shaft there are also black 
slates. The quartz is laminated. It is reported that in a recent endeavour 
to open up this reef £2,000 was spent. At present no work is being carried 
on here. The general strike at Stead’s reef is N. 15 deg. E., and the 
dip westerly at 58 deg. The Western reef runs parallel to it. The beds 
strike N. and S., and dip 70 deg. E. on the southern side of the Whim 
shaft. A great deal of work has been done here. There is a good site 
for driving in from the west at the bottom of a deep gully; but there is 
not much to encourage the prospector in the present condition of this reef, 
though forty years ago quartz from it was yielding from ij to 2 ozs. of 
gold per ton, according to Mr. Norman Taylor’s map. 
Other workings occur through these ranges. In Snodgrass Gully, 8 
miles northwards from Kyneton, by means of a tunnel, Mounter’s reef was 
extensively worked. An old alluvial lead was also worked formerly. 
The general features of the Barfold country appear to be that the Ordo¬ 
vician rocks are folded into a series of corrugations. An anticline with 
a very flat arch, 2 chains across, occurs at Eliza Hill. It will be of interest 
10 note what the results will be when the reef reaches this anticline. 
A great deal of the country exposed at the surface at Barfold seems to 
belong to a barren zone overlying what appears to correspond with the 
Castlemaine zone of the Bendigo series. Where the Castlemaine zone is 
laid bare by the folding or by denudation gold is present, but most of the 
country at the surface is barren of gold. 
Granite at Black Hill, near Kyneton. 
About 5 miles to the north of Kyneton is an outcrop of granite, that rises 
for 150 feet above the surrounding country. Groups of conspicuous tors 
are prominent landmarks for miles around. The granite consists of white 
felspar of one species only and quartz ; these are about in equal proportions. 
Biotite (black mica) is dispersed freely through the felspar, but very little 
occurs in the quartz. The granite is of coarse texture, and not suitable for 
the better class of building. 
[Report sent in 20th December , /905.] 
MINING AT STEIGLITZ. 
(no. 6 ON LOCALITY MAP.) 
By E. /. Dunn, F.G.S., Director, Geological Survey. 
The once prosperous quartz mining field of Steiglitz now comes under 
the term “ neglected gold-field,” for at the present time work has ceased on 
all the mines except the New Mariner, where a little work is being done 
at and near the surface. 
