MOUNT MISERY GOLDFIELD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 955, 6 August 1880, Page 3

MOUNT MISERY GOLDFIELD.

The Bruce Herald furnishes the following additional particulars regarding this field The credc on which the diggers are now working takes its rise amongst the broken laud to the "north-west of the Mount, -find Hows southward for two or three miles. It is in the valley this little stream flows through the workings are now being carried on by about twenty diggers. There is gold in every claim, and from information and observation the precious metal can bo got in every part of the narrow Hat now being worked—from the grass downwards to the bottom, which Is only three to five feet, and is composed of a kind of diorite The gold is ve. y lino, some of it scaly, and some other granular, but still line and apparent’/ piua. The way it is obtained is by sluicing, but the sluices now in use are all too small. There is a moderately good supply .if wader, and there is a capital road to the place by the way of Elliotvale coal mines, the distance from Milton being about fi.J to 7 miles. There is plenty- of room for tents, plenty of firewood, and there is some gold, but it has yet to be ascertained how much. At any rate the parties now at work express themselves satisfied so far, and one man spoke quite confidently of what he intended to do in the summer season. Along both banks of the creek - which are very steep—the surface is thickly strewed with small white quartz pebbles of various descriptions, and huge boulders of incipient granite, which fall to pieces easily when hammered. Amongst the prospects there was some black sand. It is impossible to say where the gold can have come from, as there is no appearance of a reef near the place; but there can bo doubt that there has been extreme heat at one time, for the pebbles and stones show traces of it. There are three or four sluices a. work, several races being cut, and other preliminary works carried out. Up to the present time, therefore, there lias been ’cry little mining, but many claim-! are car 'fully marked and pegged olf, •. ator-rigbt i secured, and other things done which would lead anyone to the belief t.iat the men on the ground had some expectation c f succeeding.