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The results obtained from quartz mining in this district are such as 
to warrant the belief that if capital is judiciously applied in sinking 
deeper, the industry will greatly expand, and prove to be remunerative. 
The mines that are doing the pioneering work will afford valuable data 
for those that follow, both as regards the conditions under which auri¬ 
ferous quartz occurs, and the best manner of seeking for such occurrences. 
Indicators are a distinct feature in this district, and much of the coarse 
gold found in the alluvial workings is due to their influence. One of 
these occurs at the head of Welcome Gully, and was discovered by Messrs. 
White and Jackson. Welcome Gully was famous for the rich returns 
of gold won from it by the alluvial workers. Towards the head of the 
gully very coarse gold, ranging up to 30-oz. pieces, was not uncommon, 
and an effort was made to locate its source. Messrs. White and Jackson 
were successful in this, and from the intersection of an indicator with a 
quartz vein of from \ inch to 1 inch thick occupying a cross fault, about 
1,000 ozs. of coarse gold was obtained in a depth of about 40 feet from 
the surface downwards. The indicator conformed to the bedding of the 
country rock, and was about \ inch thick. Except at the intersection, 
very little gold occurred, and, although the indicator has, since the dis¬ 
covery in 1894, been driven on for 400 feet northward, and 300 feet south¬ 
ward, and found to intersect other quartz veins, no payable gold has been 
struck. 
CRUSH/NG PLANT 
t(/0 HEAD) 
\ \ 
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Shaft 70%pC\ \ VA 
CROSS V£/N OF QGARAj///yj-£RSECTJON 
mm 
T V\7, 11 ; r//s 
Fig. 4. 
White and Jackson’s Indicator. Plan. 
