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encouragement for continuing present operations. The Association deserves 
much credit for the manner in which the indications of gold obtained near 
the flat were followed up, and the source determined. 
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CONCLOM ERATE \ 
Scale - 4 Chains to / Inch. 
Fig. 19. 
[Report sent in 13th October, igoy.\ 
THE KILMORE GOLD DIGGINGS. 
(NO. 28 ON LOCALITY MAP.) 
By E. /. Dunn, F.G.S., Director, Geological Survey. 
Larry Bourke’s Reef. 
About 6 miles from Kilmore, in the parish of Goldie, and on a mining 
reserve, is where Larry Bourke’s reef was formerly worked. ’The rocks 
consist of soft pink and yellow mudstones, with strike a little west of 
north, and dip to west at From 40 deg. to 60 deg. The westerly dip con¬ 
tinues in the old excavations right up to their eastern limit, but there are 
indications that centre-country may not be much further east. The work¬ 
ings are on a rise. 
Larry Bourke’s reef strikes E. and W. and dips to S. at an angle of 
almost 40 deg. The outcrop is \\ chains long and it has been worked 
on the dip to a depth of 100 feet. A shaft has been sunk on the northern 
side, so as to cut the reef on the dip. It is 100 feet deep, but apparently 
little work was done from it. A very extensive excavation exists along the 
northern side of where the reef cropped out, caused by the removal of 
considerable quantities of crushing material, and it is reported that very 
rich returns were obtained. From the reef southward a large area has 
been “surfaced” for the loose gold. About 11 chains in a south-easterly 
direction from the shaft, a deep shaft (140 feet) has been sunk in alluvial 
ground, and through basalt. The washdirt was worked to a small extent 
—it was reported with good results—but the water was very heavy, and 
work was discontinued. 
Besides Larry Bourke’s reef (the thickness of which was not obtain¬ 
able), some small quartz veins were formerly, or are now, being worked. 
One running about E. and W. is being prospected by Mr. John Evans. 
