The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . d 2S1,005,452 is a considerable quantity of gold got in the colony, and new rushes arecontinually being heard tull of. A great deal of the precious metal is obtained by quartzcrushing. One of these quartz districts—the famous locality of Gympie—raised in five QUEENSLAND: MINES. 217 years £1,000,000 worth of gold, and still keeps its reputation for paying auriferous April, 1878, a crushing of 2G tons yielded 411 ounces, and a cake of 5,800 ounce
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . d 2S1,005,452 is a considerable quantity of gold got in the colony, and new rushes arecontinually being heard tull of. A great deal of the precious metal is obtained by quartzcrushing. One of these quartz districts—the famous locality of Gympie—raised in five QUEENSLAND: MINES. 217 years £1,000,000 worth of gold, and still keeps its reputation for paying auriferous April, 1878, a crushing of 2G tons yielded 411 ounces, and a cake of 5,800 ouncescame from 739 tons. Some of the rock has indeed been now and then found of so richa quality that it has been difficult to crusli, solely owing to the gold being more abundantiu the quartz than the stone surrounding it. The alluvial dej)osits in which gold hasbeen found have hitherto proved very shallow, and therefore easily worked, but as easilyexhausted. Altogether, during 1876 the gold export is officially given at 374,776 ounces,valued at £1,427,929; but as a large quantity is carried off unacknowledged, especially by. THE VALLEY OI THE RIVER BRISBANE, SVEEXSLAND. the Chinese, any return of the amount raised must be merely guess-work, and in alllikelihood under the mark. In addition to gold, Queensland, like most of the othercolonies, puts in a claim to the possession of coal, rich copper, tin, iron, silver, cinnabar,bismuth, zinc-blende, and other ores, in addition to the deposits of precious stoneswhich we have already noted. The copper lodes ha-ve been worked with great profit atthe Peak Downs, from which mine £1,000,000 worth of metal, which paid £215,000 individends, were sent down in five years, though the high rate of wages and the costentailed by the distance of the mine from a sea-port have hitherto sorely hampered thedevelopment of these deposits. In 1876, 9,334 tons of ore made 2,102 tons of copper,valued at £172,382. The stream tin deposits are not so r
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