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very unusual characters presented here suggest that this may have been a 
point from which the widely spread agglomerate was ejected. For about 4 
miles from Mt. Leinster Station on the road to Limestone Creek the 
agglomerate rock continues; then granite outcrops. At Marengo Creek 
there is a small knob with most interesting characters. Syenite and other 
varieties of allied rocks are here met with. The surrounding rocks appear 
to be granite, as a little further on (4J miles) a creek is crossed, with a 
good outcrop of normal granite. The granite continues to the Gap be¬ 
tween Mt. Leinster Station and Limestone hut. The Gap is n miles from 
the station, and the top is 4,100 feet above sea-level. Slate and sandstone 
country occurs to the east. There is a strip of serpentine about 10 chains 
wide near the Gap to the east. Then Silurian rocks (slate and sandstones) 
outcrop down the northern side of Limestone Creek, with porphyry as 
well in places. Down the course of the creek alluvial flats open out, 
bounded by deposits of older gravels (Tertiary). Both in the alluvial wash 
of the river bed and in the drift of the terraces most of the pebbles consist 
of felspar porphyry. Along the course of the river for miles a little gold 
is found both in the terrace drift and in the alluvial wash, and the river 
course has been marked out for miles under dredging leases. Boring ope¬ 
rations are being carried on to test the value of the ground. 
Near the out-station hut, alluvial claims have been worked by hydraulic 
methods, and the ground is said to be payable, but the scarcity of water 
prevents them from being worked for more than three or four months each 
year. The height of the hut is 3,200 feet about sea-level. 
Victory Copper Lode. 
About 4 miles in a south-westerly direction, up the river from the Mt. 
Leinster out-station hut, is the Victory Copper lode, in Silurian country, 
which is principally slate. The strike of the lode is E. 10 deg. N., and the 
dip vertical. The lode, which is 10 feet wide, consists of quartz, partly 
mingled with calcareous beds, stained with malachite. There is an open 
trench, about 8 feet deep. A shaft should be sunk here to test the lode 
to a depth of 20 or 30 feet. Present appearances are not favorable to 
the occurrence of payable copper ore. 
W. O’Rourke’s Silver Lode. 
About 1 mile to the west of the copper lode is a quartz lode, which is 
from 3 to 4 feet wide. Trenches have been cut into the hillside, and the 
course of the lode has been defined. In the quartz are splashes of a dark 
mineral (a sulphide of some kind). The country-rock is felspar-porphyry. 
The Austerlitz Mine. 
Mr. D. Toland and another are sinking on an ironstone outcrop on the 
north-western side of the Limestone Creek, about \ mile above its junction 
with the Annabella Creek. The limonite is over a chain in width, and 
irregular in form. The country-rock is Silurian slate, which strikes E. 
10 deg. N., and dips northerly at 65 deg., where the observations were 
made 10 chains below the top marble outcrop, which latter is directly oppo¬ 
site the Austerlitz mine. A shaft has been sunk here to a depth of 35 feet, 
but until water-level is reached it will be difficult to know if there is any¬ 
thing of value beneath this “Iron hat.” The ironstone is traceable for 
several chains. The height of the mine is 3,500 feet above sea-level. 
The Pender’s Reward Mine. 
On the north-eastern side of the marble outcrop opposite Stony Creek, 
on the northern side of Limestone Creek, is Pender’s Reward mine. In 
