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are soft slates and sandstones, dipping from 60 degrees to the W. to 
vertical. The strata are very much disturbed. The pitch is northerly. 
Near the bottom of the shaft are numerous spurs of quartz of small size. 
Four chains W. of this line at the surface is a quartz-vein about 
9 inches thick, carrying a little sulphide, but no gold has been got in 
it. At the surface, several tons of stone are bagged from the deep shaft, 
and samples ‘from these showed gold when washed by the prospectors. 
Whether or not the reef here is a valuable one and contains sufficient gold 
to be profitably worked, has yet to be proved. 
Pat. Lyddy’s Reef. 
About ! mile to the N.N.E. from Earle and Christie’s reef, is a large 
outcrop of quartz, 4 to 5 feet thick, exposed for a length of 30 feet. 
It dips to the W. at 65 degrees, and appears to be the western leg of a 
saddle reef. The country looks like centre-country. On the eastern 
side of this a little work has been done. Still further to the N. are other 
outcrops of quartz, on some of which a little work has been done, but 
nothing is being done at present. 
[Report sent in 2nd November , 1904.] 
THE GOLDEN EAGLE MINE, BARNAWARTHA. 
(NO. 3 ON LOCALITY MAP.) 
By E. J. Dunn , F.G.S., Director , Geological Survey. 
The lease held is in Newson’s Paddock, about 4 miles from Barna- 
wartha township, and due S. from Mt. Cookimburra. The height above 
sea-level of the workings is about 1,000 feet. The rise from the main 
road to the workings is 100 feet. The excavations are situated on both 
sides of a small gully, running in a northerly direction. On the western 
side of the gully a shaft has been sunk 16 feet, and in it there is a vein 
of mixed quartz and granitic rock, from 5 to 12 inches thick. The 
country rock is composed of highly meamorphosed sedimentary beds. 
The vein-stone occurs in short blocks, and does not appear to be 
continuous; gold occurs in it in small particles. The stone ready for 
crushing is expected to yield 1 oz. to the ton, but no trial has yet been 
made. Sulphides occur in the quartz. On the eastern side of the gully, 
a hole has been sunk 11 feet deep. Here a fine-grained granitic rock, 
6 feet wide, occurs, studded with white mica; it cuts through the mica- 
schist country. Through this granitic rock, arsenical pyrites is dis¬ 
seminated. A sample of this granitic rock sent to Dapto> N.S.W., is 
said to have yielded at the rate of n dwts. of gold per ton of stone. 
So far, very little work has been done, and it has yet to be proved 
whether the vein-stone opened out is payably auriferous, or not. The 
interesting feature is the discovery of gold in these metamorphic rocks, 
of which there is a very large area, and to which attention is now attracted. 
It has always been a question whether the deep alluvial ground down the 
Indigo Valley was auriferous, or not. The discovery of gold in the 
metamorphic rocks drained by it renders it probable that the deep ground 
is auriferous. A wide field for prospecting is opened up in this district 
by Mr. Ashe’s discovery. 
\Report sent in 10th March , 1905.] 
