184 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 58 



VICTORIA (Continued) 



1226. Gregory, J. W. The Mount Cudgewa tin field. 



Geol. Surv. Victoria Bull. No. 22, 1907, Melbourne, pp. 1-4. 



A preliminary report on recently discovered tin lodes of the Cudgewa district, in 

 Benambra. Alluvial tin has unquestionably wide distribution in some parts of north- 

 east Victoria, but attempts to Work the tin-bearing lodes have hitherto failed. The 

 tin-bearing veins of the district occur mostly in the granitic rocks, close to the 

 contact wiih the schists, but sometimes in the schists. 



1227. HERMA?f, H. Report on mining at Mitta-Mitta, Eskdale, Tallandoon, and 



Mt. Elmo. 



Special Report Department Mines, 1898, Melbourne, Victoria, pp. 5-6. 

 Brief article on the geology of the surrounding country and the tin deposits of 

 the districts. 



1228. . Report on alleged tin and gold discovery at Falls Creek, near 



Bruthen. 



Records of Geological Survey Victoria, Vol. 1, pt. 1, 1902, Melbourne, pp. 70-71, 

 sketch locality plan 1. 



Writer visited locality and found nothing done by way of development work since 

 1880, until two months before his visit, so little real information could be obtained. 



Discoverers claim 10 pounds tin obtained on Foggy Creek, and good prospects of- tin 

 found in most of gullies tried, also in loam on the slopes of the hills. 



1229. KiTSON, A. E. The economic minerals and rocks of Victoria. 



Special Report Department of Mines, 1906, Melbourne, Aictoria, p. ,520. 



Tin is the second mineral of importance in Victoria, gold occupying the first place. 



It occurs as lodes: 



1. Thin veins [stockworks] ramifying granitic and poiphyritic rocks. 



2. Dykes of coarsely cr3'stalline rocks [pegmatite and greisen]. 



3. Quartz reefs traversing granitic and porphyritic rocks. 



As alluvial or stream tin, it is found in the sands and gravels of streams, which 

 have worn down rocks containing tin. 



Principal occurrences of the lode tin are at Mt. Cudgewa, Mt. Wills, Pilot Range, 

 and Eskdale in the northeastern district, and Mt. Singapore on Wilsons Promontory, 

 Southern Gippsland. 



Stream tin is found in the northea-st district, Southern Gippsland, Eastern Gipps- 

 land, Western Gippsland, Upper Yarra and other districts. 



1230. Murray, Reginaud A. F. Report on the geology and mineral resources 



of Southwest Gippsland. 



Rep. Prog. Geol. Surv. Victoria, 1876, Melboui'ne, p. 171. 



No payable tin workings in this district have been mapped. The largest quantity 

 yet obtained was in two small tributaries of the Franklin River. As the deposits are 

 , narrow, and do not occupj' any considerable length of the creeks, remunerative tin 

 workings are hardly to be hoped for. 



1231. Murray, R. A. F. Report on the Mt. Wills tin field. 



Reports and Statistics of Mines Department for Quarter ended March 31, 1890, Mel- 

 bourne, Victoria, pp. 15-17, 2 sheets of underground survey of mines, Ballarat East. 

 Digest: Neues Jahrb. Min., 1891, II, Stuttgart, p. 100. 



1232. Newbery, J. Cosmo. Laboratory report of tin ore. 



Rep. Prog. Geol. Surv. Victoria, No. 11, 1875, Melbourne, p. 129. 



Brief examination of cassiterite from Franklin, Corner Inlet, and Upper Murray. 



