LIST OF MINERALS. WALSH AND TINAROO 

 MINING DISTRICT. NORTH QUEENSLAND. 



J. STEWART BERGE 

 By I J. HARRISON BROWNLEE 

 R. COLIN RINGROSE. 



[Read be/ore the Royal Society of Queensland, 13th M(ty, 1899.] 



A FEW particulars of the great Walsh and Tinaroo Mining 

 District of Northern Queensland will not be out of place as a 

 preface to this first attempt at cataloguing its known minerals. 



Messrs. William Jack and party discovered the first tin 

 mine — " The Great Northern "—in 1879, and from that year up 

 to the present new finds have continually been and are now 

 being made, which demonstrate the extent and variety of its 

 mineral resources. 



Tin, copper, lead, silver, wolfram and bismuth are the chief 

 mineral productions, and numerous other useful minerals, such 

 as antimony, molybdenite, zinc, &c., are to be found, but do not 

 pay to work under present conditions. It is only during the 

 past year or two that wolfram and bismuth have been obtained 

 in any quantity. 



Within the boundaries of the district are included several 

 proclaimed goldlields, the gold returns from which show many 

 thousands of ounces. 



Extending from Mount Spurgeon in the north to Christmas 

 Hill Station in the south, and from Cooroo Peak in the east to 

 Torwood in the west, distances of 230 miles and about 150 miles 

 direct respectively, the Walsh and Tinaroo has a proclaimed area 

 of 12,640,000 acres, or 19,750 square miles, being larger than 

 Switzerland and nearly as large as Tasmania, and of this vast 



