Mining review . artzite fragments, which need to be cleared inorder to afford a passable track. The property comprises 10 mineral sections, 1134 to 1143 inclusive, heldas leases, and two mineral claims, Nos. 11162 and 11155, the total area heldbeing about 452 acres. The main workings are on 1138, 1137, 1135, 1136, 1143, and , there being but little work done on 1139, 1140, 1141^ 1142, 11155 up to the present. A reddish quartzite or sandstone forms the bed rock of the district andin places a siliceous conglomerate is seen, as, for instance, on 1143where there are
Mining review . artzite fragments, which need to be cleared inorder to afford a passable track. The property comprises 10 mineral sections, 1134 to 1143 inclusive, heldas leases, and two mineral claims, Nos. 11162 and 11155, the total area heldbeing about 452 acres. The main workings are on 1138, 1137, 1135, 1136, 1143, and , there being but little work done on 1139, 1140, 1141^ 1142, 11155 up to the present. A reddish quartzite or sandstone forms the bed rock of the district andin places a siliceous conglomerate is seen, as, for instance, on 1143where there are some small hills close to the manganese cutting, nvhich showa capping of conglomerate now in process of disintegration, while in manyplaces on the heights above the lake, water-worn pebbles and fragments ofconglomerate can be seen. The reddish quartzite can also be seen at theSweet Nell Copper Mine and at the Woocalla railway ballast quarry i iV-^ JiOa m! ~^^ r y k « M )_^ ^^I^^E^^^^^ •?*> ^I^BIHPIE^ ~j. Miners.^ Camps in the Early Days at Iron Knob and Hummock p. 64.] 65 At a point on the sliore of the lake from tlie corner of , cliffs of quartzite are seen, and from this a floor of quartzite runs outinto the lake for some distance, finally giving place to dolomite. Dolomite occurs as a sheet of varying thickness, overlying the (juartzitefor the mOvSt part, both in the lake bed and along the shores of the lake, Aviththe exception of some instances, as mentioned above, where the quartziteshows through and above the dolomite. At a shaft at Mount Gunson thedolomite resting on the (luartzite is seen to be 33ft. thick. This sheet is a very extensive one, being seen along the lake shore to MountGunson towards the N., and southward at Woocalla, and in cuttings alongthe East-West railway line. The dolomite is ferruginous, and of a brown color, and the appearanceof the soil, of the same characteristic brownish color, indicates the existenceof the dolo
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