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REPORT ON A NEW RUSH ABOUT TWO MILES 
SOUTH OF DU NOLLY. 
By W. H. Ferguson. 
The site of the new rush is the north-east corner of allotment No. 21 
(J. Peter McBride), about 2 miles somewhat to' the west of south from 
Dunoily. Gold was first found by Messrs. Watts and jparty, who hold the 
prospecting claim. Mr. Hunter’s geological sketch plan of Dunoily 
shows m the next allotment to the south a lead called the Red Streak. 
It was worked many years ago into the south side of allotment 21. 
The present rush is probably on a continuation of it. The lead is of 
post-Tertiary age, and is of considerable local altitude, and crosses the 
ridge southwards towards the Windmill reef. There is a considerable area 
of post-Tertiary formation in the vicinity, and the prospectors were of 
the opinion that the lead would continue through allotment 21, towards 
Fighting Flat. They recently sank some shafts in the north-east corner 
of the allotment, and have proved a lead at a depth of 47 to 55 feet. 
The party washed eleven loads* for a return of 26 dwts. ; since then 
about the same quantity was washed and only yielded a little over 5 dwts., 
which is not payable. Two other claims have bottomed and proved gold. 
The washdirt is about 1 foot thick and the lead is dry. The sinking is 
through yellow, brown, and white clays, with sub-angular and water-worn 
gravel, and boulders of ironstone and quartz. The gold is worth up to 
£\ 3s. an oz. The ground along the supposed trend of the lead has been 
taken up in claims. The owner allowed the prospectors in free, and 
charges £2 each for other claims. 
The position of the new rush is of great interest as it is on the strike 
of the Inkerman nugget belt. The reefs at Inkerman are associated with 
a soft dark-blue slate* which is studded with cubes of iron pyrites. Such 
slates in this district appear to be “ Indicator ” bands. The Windmill reef 
is located about half-a-mile south of the new rush, and at this reef, from 
which some rich crushings were obtained, a slate identical in appearance 
occurs. From the Windmill reef the distance northwards to- the Inkerman 
field is about 7 miles, and between them a narrow nugget belt appears to 
extend. 
Along it there have been found, at Inkerman, nuggets of 120 ozs. and 
others; at Turkey Flat, a nugget of 95 ozs. and others; at Hard Hills, 
nuggets of 50 ozs., 70 ozs.-, and 18 lbs. ; at Clay Gully, a nugget of 
25 ozs. and others; at White Lead, near “ Hog Bay,” a nugget of 
30 ozs. ; at White’s paddock, nuggets of 250, 40, 30 ozs ; and in the Red 
Streak Lead, south of the new rush, nuggets of 30 ozs., 25 ozs., and others. 
The belt probably continues towards Maryborough, and may be defined 
when the country intervening has been surveyed in detail. 
It is probable that the post-Tertiary accumulations around the new 
rush may carry nuggets.. During the survey work here, I have noted 
wide areas of Terrace and post-Tertiary accumulations, which have not 
been prospected. For instance, on the east side of the Moliagul-road, 
from opposite the Goldsborough Railway Station to near Dunoily, there is 
a strip of post-Tertiary to Recent formation, which skirts the hills. In 
places the bottom is known to be deep, but it has not been prospected and 
may cover auriferous leads. 
[Refort sent in 75.7.07,] 
* A load is roughly one ton 
