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The most important work in this mine would be to pick up the faulted 
portion of the reef under the flat fault. To do this, work should be 
started in the country under the fault, and the drive should be across 
country to the west. There have been extensive workings on the top of the 
hill near the south end of the lease about 2,100 feet above sea-level. 
These workings are on the rise of the pitch from No. 1 tunnel workings, 
and they should afford a clue to the direction in which further exploratory 
work should be done. In the tunnels, if the reef can be recovered below 
the fault, drives should be extended southward in centre country so as to 
discover any other saddle reefs. 
The Star of the West Extended Mine, Kevington. 
The Star of the West Extended mine adjoins the Star of the West 
mine on the north. It is worked by two tunnels driven in on the west side 
of Mack’s Creek in a westerly direction. No 1 tunnel is 150 feet higher 
up than No. 2 tunnel. At the mouth of No. 1 tunnel the beds of sandstone 
and slate dip west at 80 feet in from the mouth. At 180 feet in, the 
Eureka reef was cut and a level was driven on it north for 180 feet and 
south for 220 feet. The country dips 30 deg. W. and pitches north. 
One hundred and sixty feet south of the cross-cut a winze has been sunk 
to No. 2 tunnel. At 75 feet down the winze is an intermediate level. A 
pitch of auriferous quartz was worked down the winze. It is only a few 
feet long in the upper part, but lengthened out to 40 feet lower down, 
tnough in this part the rich shoot was not more than 10 feet long. 
In the intermediate level the north drive is 68 feet long and the south 
drive 70 feet. Portion of this was worked. .The feature is that the 
auriferous stone consists of irregular quartz spurs intersecting broken 
country rock and the gold is very irregularly distributed in the quartz. 
At the south end of the south level the beds on the east side dip east and 
those on the west side dip west. They do not bend over as an arch, but 
there is a fault down the centre dipping slightly to the west and the broken 
ends of the beds are bent up against each other along this fault line. 
About 100 feet west of the Eureka reef, Hayward’s reef was cut by the 
tunnel. Southward along Hayward’s reef and 70 feet from the tunnel 
is a winze that goes down to the No. 2 tunnel level. The quartz was 
stoped out from No. 1 level to the surface and down to No. 2 level. 
The strike of Hayward’s reef is N. 25 deg. W., dip 70 deg. W. There 
is an excellent wall and the reef conforms to the strike and dip of the 
country. 
No. 2 tunnel bears W. 10 deg. S. and is 1,000 feet long. At 514 feet 
from the mouth is the Pig and Whistle line of reef conforming in dip and 
strike with the country rock, and 84 feet further west in the tunnel is the 
Eureka line of reef. The country dips west. On the Eureka line and 
320 feet south from the tunnel is centre country with a well formed arch. 
Nothing of value was obtained in this south level. There is a rise up 
to No. 1 level. Hayward’s reef is 98 feet west of the Eureka reef *and in 
the level driven 160 feet south along this reef the shoot from No. 1 level 
is met with; this shoot continues for 50 feet further south. The reef 
does not appear to be conformable to the dip and strike of the country 
here. 
One hundred and seventy-two feet westward from Hayward’s reef is 
a dyke of dioritic character 3 feet thick, which dips west with the country 
rock. The Derby reef is 60 feet west of the dyke. A level is driven north 
