BY J. STEWART BERGE, ETC. 49 



DIVISION 1.— NATIVE ELEMENTS. 

 Section 1. — Metallic. 



Reference No. 



1. Gold (AlluciaJ j. — Found in the Russell River terraces, 



the wash being capped with basalt. 

 Tinaroo Creek with the tin. 

 Hodgkinson River. 

 Tate Goldfield, and 

 Deep Lead, Herberton, in small quantities in tin 



drifts. 

 (Reefs and Lodes). 



Towalla, on Russell Extended. 



Balcooma, a little over 100 miles S.S.W. of 



Herberton. 

 Mt. Luxton, California Creek. 

 Hodgkinson Goldfield in numerous quartz reefs, 



enumerated in Jack's Report on that field. 

 On the East Hodgkinson, associated with iron 



pyrites, copper pyrites, and galena, and at 



Northcote with antimony. 

 Tate Goldfield, the principal mine being the 



" Golden Treasure," which occurs in a schistose 



sandstone country. 

 The Mareeba Goldfield — " Mareeba Jubilee " line 



of reef in schist country. 

 Gold is also found in many of the outcrops of the 



copper lodes of the Chillagoe, but especially at 



Arbouin, where it appears to occur in payable 



quantities. 

 The total output of gold from the Hodgkinson 



alone, to the end of 1898, exceeded 240,000 



ounces. 



2. Silver. — Mount Garnet, associated with the copper ore, in 



threads and shapeless masses. 



The "Combination Copper Mine" at Halpin's 

 Camp, in the Mt. Albion locality, has pro- 

 duced some very fine specimens. 



Newellton with lead ores. 



"Nellie " Lease, Chillagoe, with copper ores. 



'• Queenslander," Chillagoe, with copper ores. 



" Mountain Maid," Mt. Albion, with lead ores. 



