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Mr. Ebbot, mine manager, supplied the following particulars of the 
present company’s yields, &c.*— 
Quartz crushed 
Gold yield 
Value of gold 
Value of pyrites sold 
23,703 tons. 
6,245 oz. 12 dwt. 
£ 2 5 > 37 2 *5 ° 
3>5°4 14 6 
Total value of quartz crushed ... ^28,877 9 6 
Auriferous Spur at Chewton. 
At the 100-ft. level in Dyason’s shaft on the north side of the creek, 
at Chewton, some very rich sDecimen quartz has been recently obtained 
from a quartz spur, which cuts nearly horizontally through the slate and 
sandstone beds, but which pitches south. The gold occurs in pieces 
up to and exceeding 1 oz. in weight in solid compact white quartz 
with ferruginous stains on the outside, and it is of very high quality. 
Where the quartz was richest in- gold the quartz spur is about 2 inches 
thick, but above and below it are 2 to 3 inches of soft material, consisting 
of angular quartz particles, with a minute quantity of clay which causes 
them to cohere. Whether this siliceous material is a quartz vein in process of 
formation or not is not clear. Auriferous spurs have been worked in this 
ground for the past 40 years, but not in the particular band of rock in 
which this rich quartz has: been found, and now it will be necessary to 
explore to the surface and below the 100-ft. level in this particular band 
of sandstone for a repetition of quartz spurs and also to work those now 
found further north and south. 
The Francis Ormond Mine. 
The Francis Ormond mine is situate at the township of Chewton. The 
shaft is sunk to a depth of 1,236 feet to the bottom level. 
At the 820-ft. level there is a cross-cut to the west. In 80 feet from the 
shaft the “ main back,” which is a nearly vertical fault, is cut. Black 
carbonaceous material and dark clay occur in the fissure. At about 
20 feet further west from the shaft is the “ main reef,” a series of 
spurs, consisting of quartz veins running up to 10 inches thick, but 
generally thinner, enclosed in slate country. The slate and quartz spurs 
are from 7 feet to 14 feet across. The pitch of the country is N. at 6 deg. 
Sixty feet east of the shaft and running northward is a series of flat 
spurs that have been worked for some distance. These spurs dip to the 
south-west. The country is slate and sandstone, and the flat spurs are 
richer in gold where they are in slate than where they are in sandstone. In 
places the quartz is very rich in gold. These spurs are being worked at 
a distance of from 250 to 300 feet east of centre country. There remains 
a great deal of prospecting work to be done in this mine before the extent 
and relative positions of the spurrv country of an auriferous nature will be 
determined. 
At the 1,030 foot level the ” main back ” is 90 feet west of the shaft. 
The dip of the fault is W. at 85 deg. The country rock is slate with 
a nearly vertical dip, but inclined to 1 the east. At 130 feet west of the 
shaft the main body of spurs occurs. The width of the quartz spurs and 
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