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along this reef and at 117 feet the dyke was intersected, showing that it 
intersects the beds. In this mine, as in the Star of the West, the best way 
to prospect the country is by means of a shaft and crosscuts in centre 
country. The intersections of the dyke with the reefs require careful 
attention. 
The New Dempsey Mine, Gaffney’s Creek. 
The New Dempsey mine is situate-about three-quarters of a mile west 
from the Albion Hotel, Gaffney’s Creek, and is about 2,200 feet above 
sea-level. The original workings are on a hillside on the west bank of 
a branch creek. The shaft has been sunk on the flat and is 240 feet deep. 
The country rock is Upper Silurian sandstone and slate beds. Curious 
nodular concretions containing iron pyrites were found in sinking the shaft. 
At No. 3 level, 140 feet from the surface, the beds dip 70 deg. E. 
The reef, which strikes E. 35 deg. S., is met with 38 feet from the shaft 
in the east cross-cut. It is driven on south-east for 135 feet and northwards 
for 70 feet. The strike of reef along the 70 feet is about E. 20 deg. S. 
and the dip is 60 deg. E. ; the quartz is about 4 feet thick. The manager 
states that this quartz yielded about 3J dwts. per ton. The shoots pitch 
in a northerly direction. Forty feet in southward from the cross-cut on 
the reef, a winze has been sunk 27 feet on the dip of the reef. Further 
south another winze has been sunk 20 feet. The quartz is said to be 3 feet 
thick and to carry gold to the extent of 1 oz. per ton in these winzes. At 
the face in the south level the quartz is 4 feet thick and is said to average 
8 dwts. of gold per ton. 
In No. 4 level there is a cross-cut east for 60 feet to the reef. The 
country rock dips west and the reef strikes about E. 35 deg. S. and dips 
E., and is 5 feet thick and said to yield 10 dwds. of gold per ton. The 
north-west level is driven 35 feet and the south-east level 5 feet. At the 
north-west end the reef is 2 feet wide. 
A dyke 4 feet thick occurs in the old Dempsey’s workings and the 
quartz reefs that were in contact with it yielded well. No dyke material 
was observed in the shaft workings and the country appears to be much 
disturbed. When the shaft is down another 100 feet or so, there will be 
better opportunities for ascertaining the structure of the rocks and relations 
of the reef and gold occurrences. 
The New Home Rule Mine, Gaffney’s Creek. 
The New Home Rule mine is situate on the west side of Gaffney’s 
Creek, about 3 miles from Knockwood, and at the same distance from 
Gaffney’s Creek township. The battery, which is on Gaffnev’s Creek, is 
about 1,800 feet above sea-level. The main tunnel is about 25 chains north- 
vest of the crushing battery and 7 00 feet above it. From the tunnel mouth 
there is an inclined tramway 1,340 feet long, then a level tramway for 
8 chains, then a shoot 250 feet high down to the ore bins. 
The tunnel is driven in westerly for 780 feet. At the surface the slate 
and sandstone beds of Silurian age are intersected by a dioritic dvke 
4 feet wide. The soil is red. The reefs were originally worked on the 
