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Yields from Puddling Operations. 
Owner of Claim. 
Depth. 
Number 
of 
Loads.* 
Yield 
in 
Ounces. 
Date Reported and Remarks. 
Jackson and party 
feet. 
10 
18 
19 
1 . 2.07 
Mackenzie and party 
13 
16 
14 
(also 59 oz. in nuggets) 
1 . 2.07 
Mackenzie and party 
13 
12 
14 
(also 20 oz. in nuggets) 
9 . 2.07 
Paul and party 
56 
20 
4 
(also 12 oz. in nuggets) 
9 . 2.07 
Taylor and party 
40 
38 
8 
(also a 2-oz. slug) 
16 . 2.07 
% 
Phillips and party 
39 
38 
19 
(this, with some small 
nuggets, gave 13 dwts. 
per load) 
16 . 2.07 
Watts and party 
45 
14 
8 
16 . 2.07 
Liddell and party 
• • 
15 
2 
16 . 2.07 
Baker and party 
55 
18 - 
191 
x "2 
16 . 2.07 
Cross and party 
12 
» 
'including a 5 -oz. slug) 
25 . 2.07 
Mackenzie and party 
13 
21 
38 
25 . 2.07 
Jackson and party 
10 
17 
0 
(including 21-oz. nugget) 
25 . 2.07 
Quartz Reefs, etc. 
The nuggets cannot have travelled far from their original quartz 
matrix which would occur in the Woolshed Hill belt. This belt shows nice 
pitted green and other slates and sandstones of Ordovician age, fissured 
with large quartz makes containing lime-soda-felspar, which indicates the 
close proximity of an igneous dyke that may be located later on near the 
Woolshed reef. I also noted this felspar in the Irvine’s reef and Federa¬ 
tion reef. These three reefs occur in the one belt. Several small laminated 
reefs are seen on the Woolshed Hill, and one of these named “ The Mint ” 
is being opened up with fair prospects. 
The size, character, and manner of deposit of the nuggets in the alluvial 
clays, &c., indicate that the gold has been shed from indicators which 
would be crossed by separate veins or by flat veins off-shooting from large 
main reefs. Further work on the reefs and quartz veins should lead to a 
more definite theory of the origin of these large gold nuggets. 
The beds of slate and sandstone are folded, and two anticlinal and a 
synclinal fold were noted. (See sketch section). 
At Irvine’s Reef, further north on this same belt, an anticlinal fold 
occurs and again to the north near the Gippsland syndicate’s mine These 
foldings were previously noted by Mr. E. J. Dunn, Director of the Geo¬ 
logical Survey, and are referred to in Bulletin No. 17, page 5, the 
Newbridge Gold-field and McEvoy’s Reef, Rheola. In the Woolshed belt 
the following reefs have been worked:—the Woolshed, the Federation, 
Irvine’si and the Rob Roy a little further to the east ; and the following 
alluvial leads coming from the same belt have been worked :—the Poseidon, 
* A load of wash-dirt is roughly 1 ton. 
