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.30 deg. W. at the surface and about 60 deg. W. lower down; pitch N. at 
20 deg. The quartz vein was only a few inches thick but about 2 feet of 
the quartz and casing on the footwall was crushed. The hanging wall is 
coarse sandstone, and the footwall hard grey sandstone. The soil is 
reddish in colour. Extensive mining operations have been carried on at this 
site, but there is no evidence of much work below water-level, and as the 
•shoot to that level was evidently well worth working there should be some 
root to it that would be worth searching for. The Amelia reef and the 
Ben Guy reef appear to belong to the one line but faulting has broken 
their continuity. 
Five chains east of the Amelia reef and on the top of the hill is the 
Jumping Moses reef. The strike is N. 15 deg. W., dip 65 deg. W., pitch 
of the gold shoot, N. Country rock yellow and grey sandstone. The soil 
is red. Shafts have been sunk to a depth of over 100 feet and considerable 
work has been done. 
The United Brothers’ reef is about half-a-mile west of the Amelia 
reef. Still further west, about 1 mile, is the Faugh-a-ballagh reef, and 
about half-a-mile further west is the St. Kilda reef. 
The features of this district are Ordovician sandstones and slates, yellow 
in colour where altered by atmospheric action, and apparently belonging to 
a zone higher than the productive portion of the Castlemaine zone. Lines 
of fault, more or less north and south in direction, have cut through the 
strata, not along the strike of the rocks, but at a small angle to it. These 
faults dip to the west or towards the granite mass of the Mount Alexander 
range. The angle of the dip is from 60 deg. to 70 deg. The west side 
of the faults is the upthrow side, and as a result a lower series of beds 
which belong to an auriferous horizon are brought to the present surface. 
The beds on the east side of the fault represent a barren zone. The quartz 
reefs in some cases are between a barren wall on the east and a productive 
set of beds on the west. At lower levels the reefs will have productive 
walls on both sides, but there is no means of determining the extent of the 
movement in the faults at present. In every case noticed in this area the 
pitch of the country and the pitch of the gold shoots correspond. 
It is highly probable that the faulting of the strata is directly connected 
with the intrusion of the granite further west. 
This district certainly is a neglected one for it is evident that reefs 
which were profitable to work 40 years ago should pay handsomely now. In 
most cases work ceased at the water line and the gold below that line 
remains to be won. Water level here is 60 feet to 70 feet from the surface. 
Small co-operative parties with steam winches should find profitable 
employment in following the gold shoots below water-level. The water in 
this area is not heavy to deal with. 
Mr. Taylor, manager of the Linda mine, furnished much information 
concerning the local reefs. 
Basalt (bluestone) free from surface cracks, vesicles, veinings and pipes 
is greatly in demand by stonemasons, and the flows that are even in texture 
and suitable for monumental and other fine work are scarce. At Redes- 
dale Junction Railway Station there is a flow of basalt that appears to be 
well worth investigating for fine textured building stone. 
[.Report sent in 2i.g.o6.\ 
