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VIRGINIA (Continued) 



1246. Watsox, Thos. L. Mineral resources of Virginia. 



The Virginia Jamestown Exposition Commission. 1907, Lynchburg, pp. 567-578. 



Gives the location, a short history of the working, and a brief description of the 

 geology of the Irish Creek tin-bearing locality. Most of the article is a transcript of 

 a commercial report upon the region by Major Hotchkiss. Mentions that the occur- 

 rence of cassiterite has been reported at Nellys Ford, Nelson County, and at Capron 

 Sprincs. Gives a bibliograph.y. 



1247. Whitehead, Edgar. The lin ore of Virginia. 



The Virginias, Vol. 5, 1S84, Staunton, p. 38. 



Reprinted from " The Advance " (no date), Lynchburg, Va. 



A letter dated January 22, 1884, to the " American Artizan," Chicago, in which 

 the Martha Cash tin properties are described. States that there are five known veins, 

 which he thinks will supply the United States with tin. Gives a number of assays 

 of both tin ore and mispickel from the same veins. The latter carried gold and silver 

 up to $255 per ton. 



1248. WiNSLOW, Abthue. Tin ore in Virginia. 



Eng. Mg. Journ., Vol. 40, 1885, New York, p. 320, sketch maps 3. 



Abstract: The Virginias, Vol. 6, 1885, Staunton, p. 168. 



Location— western slope of Blue Ridge Mountains, in eastern edge of Rockbridge 

 County. 



Description of veins — fissure veins, traversing the granite in all directions. Present 

 developments not suflBcient to pennit estimate of value nor a prediction as to future 

 of deposits. 



WASHINGTON 



1249. Anonymous. Tin in Washington. 



Mg. World, Vol. 26, 1907, Chicago, p. 784, S2o words. 



Short account of discovery of tin ore. May 1906, near Spokane, Washington, close to 

 border of Idaho, with brief notes upon the geology and development. 



1250. Collier, Arthur J. Tin ore at Spokane, Wash. 



U. S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 340, 1908, Washington, D. C, pp. 295-305. 



Cassiterite occurs in an elevation known as Silver Hill half an hour's ride from 

 Spokane on an electric road. Cassiterite is in pegmatite accompanied by sillimanite, 

 andalusite and tourmaline. Wolframite and scheelite occur in granite in the same 

 hiU. 



WESTERN AUSTRALIA 



1251. Anonymous. Tin mines in West Australia. 



Mg. Sci. Press, Vol. 70, 1895, San Francisco, p. 39. 



A short account of mining operations in the tin fields at Greenbushes, West 

 Australia. 



1252. . Greenbushes tin field. 



Austr. Mg. Stand., Vol. 17, 1900, Sydney, pp. 247-248. 



" Information concerning the situation and the character of these deposits, which 

 are known to contain certain deleterious impurities, difflcult to eliminate." 



1253. . Tin of Western Australia. 



Min. Ind. for 1900, Vol. 9, 1901, New York and London, pp. 638-639. 



Mining operations were active during 1900, at Greenbushes. The district is described 

 geologically. About 400 tons of ore were treated at local smelting works during 1900. 

 Specimens of rock from the Cornwall mine assayed 1.79 per cent Sn. 



