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the Little Exhibition reef adit. This reef has been worked out to the level 
of the lowest adit for 200 feet to the west and for several hundred feet up 
the slope by means of adits to a less depth. There still remains a great 
deal of the reef at the lowest adit level not worked. Below the adit levels- 
nothing has been done on either reef, and a shaft should certainly be sunk 
on the western side of the gully, so as to test both of these reefs lower 
down. On the eastern side of the gully neither of these reefs has been 
traced ; it is highly; probable that the gully marks a line of fault and dis¬ 
placement. 
The Great Eastern Reef.—The Blue Leader. 
Further northward from the Exhibition adits in the gully on the eastern 
slope of the hill is the Great Eastern reef, from 2 to 18 inches thick; also* 
the Blue Leader, 2 inches thick. Both of these had crushings taken from 
them, which are reported to have yielded from 1 oz. to 2J ozs. of gold, 
per ton. 
R. Pini’s Leader.—Joy’s Leader. 
R. Pini’s leader, 2 inches thick, and Joy’s leader, 3 inches thick, were 
also worked to the northward from the Exhibition reefs. 
Perseverance Reef. 
One mile N.W. from the Exhibition reefs is the Perseverance reef, a 
flattish quartz vein, a few inches thick, in granite. 300 tons of quartz 
from this reef are said to have been crushed for a yield of about 1 oz. of 
gold per ton. 
Information concerning these auriferous quartz veins was given me by 
Mr. Joy, who accompanied me to the Exhibition reefs. 
This is a very favorable tract of country for the prospector and miner,, 
and is well worth attention. 
[Report sent in 5th April, igo6.~\ 
WOLFRAM AT MT. MURPHY, BUCKWONG RIVER, 
COUNTY OF BENAMBRA. 
(no. 18 on locality map.) 
By E. /. Dunn , F.G.S., Director , Geological Survey . 
•Mt. Murphy lies about 17 miles N.E. from Mr. Pendergast’s Mt 
Leinster Station, near Omeo. It is on the Buckwong River, near the 
junction with Mt. Murphy Creek. The present approach is by means of a 
bridle track, and everything is packed in and out on horseback. A prac¬ 
ticable road for wheel traffic is said to be possible on the north-western side 
of the mount, and if any mining operations are undertaken the clearing of 
such a road should be a preliminary. Fenced grass paddocks extend 
within 3 or 4 miles of Mt. Murphy. On the south-eastern foot of the 
mount is a stockman’s hut, and also a prospector’s hut. 
Mt. Murphy rises to a height of about 4,500 feet above sea-level. 
On its eastern side there are granitic rocks extending nearly to its summit. 
The top of the mountain and the western slopes consist of altered sandstones 
that are very micaceous in places. The wolfram so far discovered has all 
been within the metamorphic area. Scattered fragments of quartz with a 
little wolfram disseminated through them, and in some cases pieces of 
wolfram weighing a pound or more, have been picked up^ on the top of 
Mt. Murphy, and on the upper slopes. 
