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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... a second quartz reef farther to the west. The output to the end of June, 1904, was 2597 tons for 1484oz. On the No. 7 lease of this company the yield of gold has been 11,590oz. from 14,000 tons. Meekatharra. The mining centre of Meekatharra is situated about 24 miles slightly east of north of Nannine. The auriferous quartz reefs of the district trend generally a little to the east of north, and are for the most part large, and appear to be fairly regular in their stoped up to the surface. The output to the end of June, 1904, was 4334oz. from 2992 tons. On the Meekatharra South Block the main workings are situated on a large quartz reef running about north-east and south-west through the centre of the lease. The present workings consist of a large open cut worked to a depth of 75 feet, and drives along the reef at this level. The gold record is 2161.50 tons for 1536.20oz., equalling.71oe. At the Commodore, at the north end, the workings are on a fair-sized north-east and south-west quartz reef, which is probably an extension of that worked to the south. The hanging wall is very clean and sharp, but the footwall is not so good; it dips at a fairly flat angle to the westward. Several shafts have been sunk on it, the deepest being 120 feet on the underlay; drives have been put in from this shaft for a distance of 100 feet at both the 80 and 120 feet levels, but very little stoping has been done. The reef, on the whole, is low grade, though there were one or two small rich bunches on it. One or two smaller leaders come in from the east, and a little work has been done on one of them. A large lode formation runs east and west near the main underlay shaft; this formation is full of small quartz leaders, some of which are very rich, but the lode, as a whole, is to...