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Teef both north and south of the present tunnel ends. A feature in this 
mine is the great purity of the gold, which is worth over £4 2s. per oz. 
Iron pyrites and other sulphides occur with the gold and the concentrates 
are likely to be very valuable. 
Parallel lodes are stated to occur both to the east and west of this main 
lode. No crosscuts of an exploratory character have been made through the 
•country from this tunnel. 
South-west from the mouth of the tunnel and a little further up the hill 
is the Prospector’s or Post’s reef which has been worked from the surface 
to a moderate depth and for a length of 200 feet. This reef is to the west 
of the Just in Time reef. The strike is north and south, dip 80 deg. E., 
and the quartz, &c., is 2 feet thick. The reef crosses the country rock. 
A crosscut from the tunnel should be extended west to cut this reef in depth. 
About 20 chains further south and on the north side of the next gully 
running westward from the mountain, is the Bull and Damper claim. This 
has been worked by tunnels at two levels and is now being tried again. 
On the south side of the gully a level is extended along the reef for 300 feet 
on the claim known as the Bread and Sugar mine. At the mouth of the 
tunnel is a large, nearly horizontal, granitic dyke. Where the reef which 
is 6 to 8 inches thick was intersected by the dyke it was rich in gold. Three 
tunnels have been driven along the reef on this slope. A shoot of gold 
about 100 feet long pitching south has been worked in the gully and 
followed down below the tunnel. The country rock on Mt. Elliott’s flank 
where this line of reef is worked is metamorphic, very micaceous in parts and 
■other parts consist of hornfels and rocks similar to those met with at 
Maldon. Granite rocks probably underlie the altered beds at no great depth 
and have produced the metamorphism. 
South of the Bread and Sugar tunnel is the old She-oak workings which 
are idle at present. Several other portions of this reef have been worked 
further south to where it is hidden under the plain. Tenby’s Reward is 
south of the She-oak claim. Northward of the Just in Time Claim where 
the three men are working is the Corrvong View, with a shaft 60 to 
70 feet deep. 
Besides the main line of reef on the west flank of Mt. Elliott there are 
many gold workings that were not visited. On the north end of the mount 
the Dig, the Welcome, the Mary Jane, the North New Chum (this was 
extremely rich in gold, some of the quartz yielding as much as 16 oz. of 
gold per ton; the shaft is 300 feet deep), the Englishman, and the Rose of 
Australia. O11 the east are the Bandicoot, the Golden Purse, and a large 
reef unnamed. South of the mount is the Lucky Friday and other claims. 
The tract of auriferous country in which Mt. Elliott is situated is of 
metamorphic character and stretches from Towong southward for 10 or 12 
miles with a width of 4 to 5 miles. The Murray’ River forms its eastern 
boundary. The whole of this tract offers attractions for the prospector. 
At present it comes under the neglected gold fields class, as on the whole 
of this promising country there are but ten men at work. There is a 
Government battery at Mt. Elliott, and this should facilitate the work of 
the prospector. 
Thougla Creek. 
About 10 miles in a southerly direction from Corrvong, Thougla Creek 
leaves the hills of Ordovician rocks and flows through the granitic plain. 
Two miles higher up is Meurant’s. Thougla Creek has been worked along 
