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Nearly all the reef workings were carried out in the early days of raining, 
and it is difficult to obtain reliable information beyond what is given above. 
Most of the quartz observable in this district has a thin casing of oxide 
of iron or manganese. 
With the exception of the operations of the Madame Hopkins Company, 
there is but little mining being carried on in the parish at present, only 
a few fossickers occasionally working in the shallow ground. 
There is still, however, scope for prospectors with capital in reefing, 
especially in the eastern or Amherst side of parish; for, although there has 
been a fair amount of prospecting done in the past, it has not been of a 
sufficiently extensive character to prove the richness or otherwise at a depth 
of the lodes in the district. 
The topographical survey of the parish was carried out by Mr. A. W. Gahan. 
Office of Mines, Melbourne, 20th June, 1900. 
