15. REPORT ON RAPID GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PARISH OF 
BUNG BONG, COUNTIES GLADSTONE AND TALBOT.* 
{By Stanley B. Hunter.') 
General Features. 
The area within this parish consists of Ordovician hills and Cainozoic 
and Pleistocene flats. 
The Cainozoic includes “ Pliocene ” basalts similar in character to the 
basalts covering the Moolort leads, cements occasionally auriferous and not 
unlike the gold-bearing cemented gravels at Talbot, and deep alluvial leads, 
the latter being “ Lower Pliocene/' The Pleistocene comprises all recent 
deposits of sand, slum, gravels,or clays, in the gullies and along the banks of 
the Bet Bet Creek. 
Fully two-thirds of the parish consist of State forest lands covered with 
a young growth of various gums, box, and ironbark. 
A small area of auriferous cement (“Pliocene”), close to where One-mile 
flat crosses the road a little west of centre of parish, was worked out some 
years ago, having proved highly payable. 
Alluvial Workings and Deep Leads. 
Moonlight Flat .—This heads from the same range as Doctor’s Gully, 
and has been worked down to its junction with the Adelaide lead in parish 
of Wareek. Occasionally rich patches were found in the wash. 
On the eastern portion of the parish many gullies have been worked, such 
as Whitehorse, Pieman’s, Kangaroo, Coppernose, Kentish, &c., some of which 
join the Daisy Flat lead in the parish of Amherst. These tributaries, by 
report, were payable. 
In the western portion of the parish is a basaltic flow of about 1J miles 
in width, under which a lead known as the Madame Hopkins has been proved 
to extend for over 14 miles. Two lines of Government bores have been 
put down on this lead in the parishes of Bung Bong and Lillicur (Annual 
Reiiorts 1890-1 contain records and geological sections of this work). 
A company was formed to work the lead at the site of the northern 
line of bores (shown on plan), and a main shaft 18 feet x 10 feet in the 
clear was sunk to a depth of 212 feet. On this depth being reached the 
inflow of water became too heavv, and work was discontinued. The New 
Madame Hopkins Company has resumed mining operations in the shaft 
originally commenced, and as the gutter traverses generally through aurifer¬ 
ous country, and is also fed by tributaries such as Ironbark lead, &c., there 
is a reasonable possibility that it will in places prove payable. Powerful 
pumping machinery will be required wherever mining operations are 
attempted, as the lead drains a very wide area of country, and the water to 
be contended with will be extremely heavy. As to the course of the lead 
north of Bung Bong, I have in a previous reportf on the parish of Wareek 
dealt with the question in detail. 
A small lead exists under the tongue of basalt extending south-east along 
the Dunira Creek, and is locally known as Moore’s Flat lead, at the head 
* Plan is published separately. 
t Hunter, Geol. Surv. Viet., Prog. Kept., No, 10, 1899, p. 7. 
