New South Wales. 
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gold. Nay, there is good reason to believe that the Carboniferous 
rocks are themselves impregnated, as in one remarkable instance 
on Peak Downs . * 
In New Zealand gold sometimes occurs so mixed with siliceous 
particles as to constitute with them a golden sandstone. 
The distinctive differences in material mineral wealth between 
Victoria and New South Wales are not altogether confined to 
gold or tin, which latter met ah is well represented in New South 
Wales and Queensland ; but coal, iron, and copper, and perhaps 
lead, prove together more than an equivalent of the great amount 
of gold in Victoria. 
At the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1855, the present 
writer exhibited a collection of rocks and fossils, illustrating the 
* This example is thus referred to in a communication to me from Mr. 
Daintrce, F.G.S., in a letter dated “ Maryvale, North Kennedy, Jany. 22nd, 
1870: — 
“ I believe if the Peak Downs District were carefully mapped, it would bo 
incontestably proved that payable drift gold is there found in the Carboniferous 
conglomerates.” 
lie then gives a section of the shaft and drive then being worked at the 
Springs, about 12 miles from Clermont, and adds:—“The miners use the Car¬ 
boniferous sandstone, tlie Olossoptoris bed at, bottom, and take the cement 
several inches from its junction with the Glossoptcris bed for their wash- 
dirt. The surface of the Glossoptcris bed is unbroken, dips southerly at 
ail angle of about 5°, and Die cement lies conformably on it, and little 
patches of mud deposit in the cement, similar in appearance to the Glossoptcris 
sediment, lie in the same plane as that bed, and 1 have no doubt the cement 
is conformable to the Glossoptcris bed of the same period of deposit. Small 
fragments of C'oal were taken from the adjoining shaft, and I have no doubt, 
with the necessary time given to the work. Carboniferous fossils may ultimately 
be found in the conglomerates themselves —so putting the matter beyond 
reach of dispute.” 
A similar instance of such an occurrence was examined by myself in the 
Coal Measure drift of Talhlwang, in the county of Phillip, in the year 1875, 
and recognized us payable by 0. S. Wilkinson, jEsq,, K.G.S., the present 
Geological Surveyor, in his report to the Minister of Mines, Dec., 187b, in 
which place there is mention of other notices by myself of like association. 
The localities are similar in geological structure ; for almost in the words of 
Mr. Daintrce, which Mr. AVilkinson never read, the latter says, “ Those con¬ 
glomerates are associated with beds of sandstone and shale, containing Glos- 
xopteris, the fossil plant characteristic of our Coal Measures.” [] u Annual 
Report for year 1870,” p. 173.]] 
I made a section of the deposits which T found resting on hard shales 
(probably Devonian) in which numerous shallow shafts have produced 
alluvial gold. The bottom of the beds above the base exhibited a breceiatcd 
fragmentary deposit, well seen a mile or two away, on the road to Cqbbor.i— 
above which sandsloncs, flinty shale, coarse grits, the red shales of Mount 
Victoria and lllaekheath occur; and, nearer the top, Vertebrnria and 
Glossoptcris and Clin renal are met with. One of tin? beds was of quartz- 
pebbles, cemented by ferruginous matter, precisely like many dctrital frag¬ 
ments in other gold-fields, and specially resembling that above Govett’s Leap, 
in which I obtained gold in 1863. 
