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From the surface down¬ 
wards patches of iron pyrites 
occur in the gossan and 
quartz. The claim is 
registered as a prospecting 
area of about 300 yards 
square. 
Duffy’s reef (John Duffy) 
is about half-a-mile southerly 
along the ridge from Brown’s. 
A shaft is about 14 ft. 
deep ; the lode in the west 
end is as in Fig. 57 in 
decomposed granite. In the 
east end of the shaft the 
PLAN 
Line of Lo'fe 
lode 
Ridge, showing Duffy’s 
Workings. 
(Stale—'1 mile to 1 inch.) 
SECTION ALONO LINE AB. 
Fig. 58.—(Duffy’s Reef, Plan and Section. 
(Scale—Approximately 160 feet to 1 inch.) 
is smaller, and not so well defined. 
A plan of the bottom of 
the shaft is as in Fig. 57. 
The lode is nearly vertical 
as far as sunk on ; the 
west face is solid quartz, 
with a little iron pyrites, 
copper pyrites, and galena. 
The strike is N. 75° 
to 80° E. The apparent 
continuation of the line 
of lode westerly has been 
cut in holes about 1 
and 2 chains distant 
respectively from the shaft 
shown in Fig. 58. A 
little gold was visible 
in the stone broken from 
the shaft; a trial crushing 
is necessary to ascertain 
its value. Fig. 59 shows, 
roughly, the topography of 
the ridge and the relative 
positions of the two reefs. 
A few additional pros¬ 
pectors, who had not found 
anything of apparent value, 
were at work in the 
locality at the time of 
my visit. The field hardly 
warrants the attention of 
more than a few men 
until more work has been 
done on the lodes already 
found. 
