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Near the head of Dawson's Gully the Silurian sandstones strike N. 
8 deg. W. and dip 70 deg. E. 
Victory Reef. 
This reef is about \ mile to the W. of Tanjil. The shaft is close to 
and on the northern side of the Moe road; it is 105 feet deep. A sollar 
has been put in at 85 feet, and the present workings axe above this level. 
Most of the way the shaft follows the reef, which strikes N. 6 deg. W., and 
dips 65 deg. to 70 deg. W. The thickness of the quartz is from 2 inches 
to 12 inches, averaging about 6 inches. The pitch of the country-rocks is 
S, at 20 deg. Quartz from this mine is reported to have yielded up to 
2 ozs. of gold per ton. Down to 70 feet Mr. Pope states the quartz 
yielded at the rate of 16 dwts. of gold.per ton. 
At present work is being done at this mine, and the reef looks sufficiently 
favorable to warrant further development. It could not, however, be 
examined in the bottom level. There is about 300 feet of ground between 
this shaft and the old shaft formerly worked on the same line of reef, but 
how much solid ground remains is not known. The old shaft is 60 feet 
deep, and from it a considerable quantity of quartz is reputed to have 
been won. 
Klondyke Gully. 
About 5 miles by road, in a direction a little W. of N. from Tanjil, 
is an alluvial working in a small gully, known as Klondyke. The country- 
rocks are Silurian sandstones and mudstones of grev and yellow colour. 
The strike of these beds is N. 12 deg. W. and thev diD 67 deg. W. 
Covering the bed-rock to a depth of 8 to 10 feet there is alluvial material 
evidently derived immediately from the adjacent rocks. The coarser pieces 
of quartz, &c., are all angular, and the gold was very sharp, and not at 
all water-worn. Much of the gold had angular quartz attached to it. and 
there was ;no gold obtained that was at all water-worn. The gold appears 
to have been derived from the western side of the gully, and much of it 
was coarse, pieces up to 19 ozs. having been reported. Mr. Wright, who 
has been working this ground, pointed out the sites at which some of the 
heavier pieces of gold were found. 
The gully has been worked for about 5 chains in length, and about 
3 chains further on it joins Baker's Gully, which was very rich lower down 
its course. On the western side of Klondyke Gully the sandstone is 
veined with quartz, but no gold has been found in these veins. A fault in 
the beds occurs and is marked by a vein of ironstone (limonite). The fault 
pitches northward, and its dip is slight near the surface; but it soon bends 
over and dips more sharply to the E. Whether thisi vein of ironstone has 
anything to do with the occurrence of gold is not known; but a little pro¬ 
specting along the course of the fault should be done. 
A dyke runs about 2 chains west of the head of the gully, and outcrops 
near the top of the ridge, on the southern side of the track. Its strike is 
N. 20 deg. W. Some work should be done on the eastern side of this 
dyke near bed-rock, so as to< discover if the gold obtained from the gully 
comes from the dyke, which runs nearly parallel with it. 
About ^1,200 worth of gold is said to have been obtained from the 
workings, which average 6 to 10 feet deep in the small gully, which is about 
5 chains in length, and less than 1 chain wide. The gold found here, 
judging by the sample seen, must have been of local origin, and the quartz 
