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The present shaft is well situated for prospecting the country, but for 
following the gold a shaft would be necessary further south. The manager 
informs me that the gold from this, reef is worth about ^3 17s. 6d. per oz., 
and he also states that during the past four years 4,060 tons of quartz have 
been crushed for 1,349 ozs. 10 dwts. 14 grs. of gold. 
Bill Smith’s Workings, etc. 
Southwaru from the Linda mine and on the north bank of the'Coliban 
River, and 25 chains west from the bridge, some parallel quartz veins were 
worked, but only to shallow depths. 
A few chains still further westward, is another reef that has been 
more extensively worked. The strike of the reef is N. 20 deg. E., dip 
55 deg. W. The quartz is about 1 foot thick. A tunnel was run from a 
gully for two. or three hundred feet. The country rock is coarse yellow and 
grey sandstone. Five chains west of this reef there is a remarkable outcrop 
or quartz that does not appear to have received much prospecting. The 
country rock is a coarse grit. 
The Ben Guy Reef. 
About 20 chains west from the Linda reef and near Myrtle Creek is the 
Ben Guy reef at present being worked by a co-operative party. This reef 
has recentlv been opened up and is the northern continuation of the old 
Amelia reef which was extensively worked in the early days and is reported 
to have yielded richly. 
The strike of the Ben Guy reef is N. 15 deg. W., dip 66 deg. W., pitch 
N. 23 deg. The country rock is yellow sandstone. North of the gully 
there are three or four quartz veins, each from J inch to 2 inches, thick, in 
a width of 3 feet. The stone pays well for working as the quartz veins are 
rich in gold and yield up to 2 ozs. per ton. The pitch is northward at 
about 40 deg. This line of reef has been traced through a claim further 
northward and on to the top of the spur where it enters private property. 
From the east side of this spur a little alluvial gold has been traced towards 
tne Linda mine. It is the only alluvial gold found in any of the gullies in 
this neighbourhood. 
Just south of the gully where the Ben Guy workings are, a dyke of 
much decomposed rock (diorite ?) occurs. The strike of the dyke is W. 
40 deg. N., dip W. The dyke appears to have been displaced by the fault 
in which the Ben Guy reef has formed, for it is traceable up to the 
reef but not to the east of it. The dyke has been traced for 2J chains to 
the west of the reef, and on the north side of the gully where it has been 
stripped to a couple of feet in depth from the surface. On the wegt side, 
between the dyke and the hanging wall of slate to the west, there is a small 
quartz vein from 1 inch to 2 inches thick which shows gold freely. Where 
tne dyke abuts on the quartz vein it is 4 feet thick, and there is a thin reef 
of rich quartz on each wall. On the north side of the gully the dyke has 
widened out considerably, but the total width has not been determined. 
Probably on the east wall there may also be a quartz vein carrying gold. 
The auriferous quartz associated with the dyke was first discovered in 
a rabbit burrow. 
The Amelia Reef. 
About half-a-mile southward from the Ben Guv, reef and on the east 
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bank of Myrtle Creek is the Amelia reef worked about 40 years ago, and it 
is reported, with good results. The strike of the reef is N. 5 deg. W., dip 
