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dip S.W. at 40 deg. There are two shafts; the N.W. one is 200 feet 
deep and the S.E. one about 307 feet. The pitch of the shoot of gold is to 
the S.E. At the deeper shaft the rocks near the surface are of reddish 
colour but those from a greater depth are greyish and much seamed with 
quartz veins like the Stawell country rock. The quartz mined here is said 
to have yielded about half an ounce of gold per ton. All plant and build¬ 
ings have been removed. 
The Bonny Dundee Mine 
Half-a-mile further northward from the Darlington mine is the Bonny 
Dundee mine. All surface plant and buildings have been removed. 
The country rock is much the same as at Stawell and at the Darlington 
mine but not so much crumpled. The reef strikes N. 5 deg. W. and dips 
E. at 40 deg. Strike of country rock W. 30 deg. N., dip N.E. 85 deg. 
The decomposed slates and sandstones are white and grey at the outcrop - 
The shoot of auriferous quartz pitched southward. There is a shaft 
200 feet deep and a wire fence cuts right through the shaft. 
North-eastward, about half-a-mile from the Bonny Dundee shaft, and 
in the middle of a paddock, is a shaft over 100 feet deep in normal country 
rock apparently unaltered by proximity to a granite mass. The rocks are 
grey and yellow sandstone and slate. A reef was worked here that is 
reported to have yielded 4 dwts. of gold per ton of quartz. 
The Germania Reefs 
The Germania reef is situate about 6 miles N.N.W. of Stawell at the 
end of the Iron Bark Ranges. It was discovered in 1869. There is a 
shaft 200 feet deep on the W. Germania reef and many shallower shafts. 
The country rock consists of black and dark-grey sandstones and slates, 
thinly laminated as a rule and contorted, but not to the same extent as the 
Stawell beds. The surface exposures of these rocks are yellowish and the 
soil is red. The quartz from the bottom of the workings is laminated. 
The strike of the country is N.W.; the strike of the reef is N. 20 deg. W. 
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Fig. 1. 
Section on East Side of Dredge Paddock, Stony Creek. 
