Look a Gully with my name :lol: must be a sign 8) You just never know
Now who is at home scratching there head and thinking we should I look next, why not try this spot :8
HOMEWARD BOUND AND 8 AND 2 MINES.
This reef is on the Sultan belt, about half a mile south of the creek, which flows through Barry's Reef township. It is not being worked at present. but was partly worked in 1869. Highly payable auriferous quartz was obtained,
The reef in the old surface workings appears to have had a strike of N.. to deg. W., with an easterly underlie. The strata strike in one place N. and S.; in another working, N. 8 deg. W. ; they are grey and blue slates and sandstones. A mass of leaders has apparently been worked to a width of zo feet. In places there are large excavations on the surface, and it is said that ore was taken out for an average width of to feet, and yielded a return of 3 or 4 dwts, of gold to the tan. Some very rich patches have been obtained. - It is stated that Messrs. Mackay and Stephens secured two buckets of stone which yielded
ozs. of gold. ,
Considerable faulting appears to have occurred along the lode at the surface workings. This has probably affected the dip of the strata. In a thick sandstone bed flat quartz occurrences have been worked; the strata on either side of this bed dip easterly at 6o deg., and westerly at 65 deg.
The workings are situated where the strata have an opposite dip, but it was not established that they are locate.l. in a fold of the rock layers.
At a depth of 7o feet, 447 ozs. of gold were, it is stated, obtained by the Homeward Bound and the 8 and 2 companies.
At the southern end of the workings the reef is cut off by a cross-course filled by a dyke 4 feet thick. The 'dyke is nearly vertical, and is now in the condition of a soft white clay. Across the cross-course, to the south, there are limited workings on the line of the lode. It was not ascertained whether the cross-course faulted the lode vertically, or to the east or west.
