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No. i tunnel is on the hillside about 1,900 feet above sea-level and is 
driven 350 feet in a direction W. 20 deg. N. At the tunnel mouth the 
Silurian slates and sandstones strike N. 10 deg. W. and dip to the east 
at 70 deg. A few feet in, the country rocks dip to the west at 85 deg., 
and at 60 feet from the mouth the beds dip west, and a reef conforming to 
them and 4 inches thick" was cut. The strike of the reef is W. 20 deg. N. 
At 280 feet in, a reef 2 inches thick and nearly sertical was cut. A dyke 
intersects this reef but only a little gold occurs in the quartz. A level is 
driven north 12 feet on the reef j it then follows the dyke, which is 2J feet 
thick and strikes N. 37 deg. W. Along the dyke, 25 feet from the 
tunnel, is a “ leg,’ 5 and this bends over and forms a saddle reef. 
ac 300 feet from the mouth of the tunnel is another quartz reef 
2 1 feet thick, which bends over the anticline. This saddle reef has been 
worked profitably on both legs and over the arch. At 150 feet northerly 
from the tunnel a saddle reef has been sloped. There are three saddle 
reefs in this part of the mine, one over the other, all of which have been 
more or less worked and with good results. 
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The south tunnel is in a gully, and considerably lower down than No. 1 
tunnel. It is being driven in a westerly direction, and has cut the saddle 
reefs on the southerly pitch. In working this mine the structure of the 
country with its saddle reefs has to be carefuliv considered, and the 
prospecting work has to be done in the best direction for intersecting fresh 
saddle reefs and legs. 
There are two anticlines cut by No. 1 tunnel, one near the mouth of the 
level and the other about 300 feet in. The best site for prospecting for 
other saddle reefs is down through centre country. The gold as in most 
of the neighbouring mines is worth ^3 17s. 6d. per oz. 
The New Alabama Mine, Ten-Mile. 
Sailor Bill’s Creek, which has been worked for alluvial gold right up 
to its source, runs into the Ten-mile from the south. One mile up this creek 
is a dyke which has been traced for a considerable distance across the 
country. The belt of auriferous country commences about 1 mile west of 
Ten-mile and is about 2 miles wide to the west of this point. 
At the New Alabama mine, which is about 2J miles westerly from Ten- 
mile township, a shaft has been sunk 260 feet. A dyke dips west from the 
surface and is cut in the shaft at 210 feet. It is from 1 to< 6 feet thick. 
Where the quartz veins intersect the dyke they are auriferous. 
A flat fault throws the reef above it 100 feet to the east of its con¬ 
tinuation below the fault. On the east side of the hill is a tunnel at the 
mouth of which the Silurian slate and sandstone beds strike N. 25 deg. 
W. and dip 70 deg. W. The tunnel is 140 feet below the sill of the 
shaft and is driven in a direction S. 35 deg. W. At 300 feet in from 
the mouth of the tunnel the Alabama reef was cut and a level driven 
northward for 400 feet to the shaft on the hill. The shaft has been sunk 
120 feet below this level. A dyke dipping 50 deg. W. is intersected in the 
level by the Alabama reef 50 feet south of the shaft. At the intersection 
the quartz expands, and this expansion is vertically about 12 feet in height 
and about 1 to 4 feet thick, the general thickness of the quartz leg on the 
Alabama reef being about 3 to 6 inches thick. Where the expansion 
occurs there was stone that yielded several ounces of gold per ton. The 
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