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 treated at the Waihi School of Mines is said to have yielded gold at the rate of 3 oz. 7 dwt. per ton, and silver 2 oz. 1 dwt., equal to a value of £13 12s. 1d. per ton.

Several other parallel reefs, known as Andy’s reef and McCarthy’s reef, a short distance to the south of O’Malley’s reef, were also prospected, the former being up to 5 ft. in width and showing a little gold by panning. The

company also came into possession of the area containing the reef prospected by Van Belle, and did some little work on other reefs to the eastward of the O’Malley reef outcrop. One of these was named the Cave Reef. As a matter of fact, all the outcrops were along the same north-westerly-striking line, and the Van Belle reef was probably the north-western extension of O’Malley’s reef, or one of the parallel reefs near the latter, and the Cave Reef the south-eastern extension. The sketch-plan shown in Fig. 4 will serve to illustrate the position.