126 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 58 



NEW SOUTH WALES (Continued) 



804. . Beach mining in New South Wales. 



Queensland, Gov. Mg. Journ., Vol. 8, 1907, Brisbane, p. 175. 



Refers to report on beach mining in Queensland, made by L. C. Ball in 1905, and 

 states that under similar conditions to those he described a French company intends 

 to work the 13 miles of beach, from one mile south of Evans or Little River, at the 

 mouth of Richmond River, running northerly to McAuley's Lead. " The sands are 

 said to contain gold, platinum, tin, monazite, and other minerals," but the richness 

 is not known. 



805. . Beach mining in New South Wales. 



Queensland Gov. Mg. Journ., Vol. 8, 1907, Brisbane, p. 275. 



The Byron Bay correspondent of the " Town & Country Journal," under date 8th 

 May, writes: A new mining plant has been set up at Broken Head, on the northern 

 end of Seven-mile Beach, that was formerly very rich in gold, tin and platinum. 

 A Sydney s.vndicate has just completed a plant, to treat the black sands for six or 

 more kinds of minerals, which have a good market value. All previous work along 

 this foreshore was confined to the recovery of gold and tin. It has now been found 

 that minerals of equal value exist in the concentrates. Other parties are also working 

 the beach sands. 



806. Beeb, Adolf. Geschichte des Welthandels. 



1S64, Vienna, pp. 210-211. 



Short notice of the tin production in New South Wales and Queensland. 



807. Benedict, Wm. De L. Tin in New South Wales. 



Min. Ind. for 1S92, Vol. 1, 1893, New 'Vork, p. 443. 



Principal alluvial deposits in New South Wales are situated about 400 miles north 

 of Sydney, on western slope of the great dividing range. Alluvial deposits said to be 

 practically exhausted. Tin has been found in veins in the Emmaville district, the 

 principal one being the Oetery mine. 



Brown, A. Selwyn. See Nos. 1307 and 1308. 



808. Card, George W. Minerals of economic value, New South Wales (tin). 



Handbook to the Mining and Geological Museum, Sydney, 1902, Sydney, pp. 06-67, 

 113-115. 



General description of tin ore and its manner of occurrence, with a list of tin 

 specimens in the museum at Sydney. 



809. Carne, J. E. The auriferous beach sands of the Esk River and Jerusa- 



lem Creek, in the parish of Esk County, Richmond, New South Wales. 



Rec. Geol. Surv. New South Wales., Vol. 5, 1898, Sydney, pp. 71-86. 

 A number of assays of the sands are given, nearly all showing presence of tin. The 

 possible sources of the gold, platinum and tinstone in the sands are: 



(1) The underlying Siluro-Devonian rocks which contain poor quartz reefs. 



(2) The Clarence coal measures. 



(3) Drifts under basalt, known to occur and to be slightly auriferous. 



(4) The basalt, doubtfully gold bearing. 



(5) The draining channels from New England. 



810. Clarke, W. B. Leading article on mining containing a prognostication 



of the discovery of tin in New South Wales. 



April 16, 1849, Sydney Morning Herald. 

 Not available to the authors. 



