The gold-scheelite-quartz lodes of the Wakamarina valley were the most productive of the mesothermal gold-bear in the Marlborough Schist. Most of the production came from the Empire City and Golden Bar mines which worked tug,
Golden Bar lode. Only 134 m of its 1800 m strike length are accessible, in the No. 2 level of the Golden Bar Mine. A fau I
has downthrown the Golden Bar Mine section by 2 47 m and displaced it left-laterally by 18 m. The lode is a typical
ribbon-banded mesothermal vein, averaging c. 1.75 m wide, and enclosing narrow horses of schist country rock. It i
composed of bands of milky "buck" quartz with thin laminae of schist. Scheelite occurs in short strings of grains withi
quartz on the footwall side of the lode and also in small quartz-carbonate veinlets in the foot wall and hanging wall schist
The lode quartz contains only localised traces of pyrite and arsenopyrite. They are more abundant in the wall-rock schist.