146 
In 1897, wlien first found, a surface quartz outcrop was prospected 
witli fair results, and Tyrell and party put in a tunnel for a distance of 
298 ft. at the same time sinking several shallow shafts, of which one 
cut the tunnel and was used as an air shaft (50 ft.). Several thin 
quartz veins in the dyke were prospected, and eleven samples weighing 
from 5 lb. to 12 lb., gave returns equal to 4| to 5J dwt. per ton. Three 
crushings of 1 ton each gave respectively 10 dwt. 13 gr., 3 dwt., and 
3 dwt. per ton. 
Nothing further was done until 1911, when the present party was 
formed to prospect the mine close to the old main open cut. In this 
open cut an eastern dipping quartz lens, 1 ft. wide, was seen on the 
dyke footwall. Two tons were taken out and crushed at Kutherglen for 
7 dwt. 12 gr, per ton, and two tons at Bendigo for 8 dwt, 12 gr. per ton. 
In 1912 a Government grant of £100 was allotted to the party to 
further prospect by sinking and driving towards the open cut workings. 
The shaft has now been sunk 50 ft. in the dyke and a level driven 
south-westerly for a distance of 57 ft., where a sandstone formation 
was cut and work discontinued. Opposite the shaft a branch drive south 
was put in 22 ft. without proving anything of value, and at 11 ft. from 
the shaft another branch drive was put in north-westerly to follow a 
6fin. quartz vein dipping 30° east. Samples from this vein were taken 
during the inspection and assayed at the Geological Survey laboratory. 
No. 
Description. 
Gold. 
Silver. 
Remarks. 
oz. 
dwt. 
gr. 
oz. 
dwt. 
gr. 
406 
Quartz 4 in. thick.. 
0 
1 
23 
0 
0 
16 
407 
Wall of same, 1 in. each side 
0 
1 
7 
0 
0 
16 
408 
Diorite, 1 in. each side 
0 
0 
16 
0 
0 
16 
Total,vein 8 in. thick from 
0 
3 
22 
0 
2 
0 
north-west drive 
• 
405 
Quartz at 32 ft. deep in main 
0 
2 
15 
0 
0 
16 
shaft 
410 
Quartz vein from south shaft 
0 
5 
21 
trace 
near surface 
> 
411 
A picked mineralized speci- 
1 
13 
23 
0 
11 
2 
Contained 
men from dump at open 
stibnite, 
cut 
arsenopyrite 
and galena. 
There is nothing to show which way the main auriferous vein 
pitches, but most of the larger veins at the surface occur to the south 
of the open cut workings, suggesting that the larger veins may also be 
in that direction. 
I consider that the sandstone wall cut in the main level should be 
driven on south-easterly to prove if the main contact surface vein 
extends that way; the quartz vein in the branch drive should also be 
further prospected. Although the above assays are not payable, the 
vein being so narrow, it might increase in width, and possibly connect 
with the open cut. On the whole the quartz veins are of the lens type, 
very irregular and apparently short in extent, but not one of them has 
yet been thoroughly prospected. If favorable developments should at 
any time take place, further work by means of the old tunnel could be 
undertaken. 
[11.9.13.] 
^ Gold Occurrences, Upper King, by James Stirling, Mon. Prog, Kept. No. 9, 1899. 
