BY EDWD. B. LINDON, A.R.S.M. 35 
consistency of its gold-bearing reefs, and the peculiar and often 
complex associations of the precious metal with other minerals, 
rather than for the extent of its alluvial goldfields, of which the 
Palmer has been the most productive ; a nugget weighing about 
1,000 ozs., found in 1867 in Gympie Creek, is the largest recorded, 
and most of the goldfields on which reefs are now being worked 
were at one time yielding payable gold from the alluvial patches 
in adjoining valleys or gullies, as, for instance, from Moonlight 
Creek on the Nebo goldfield, where a 60 oz. nugget was obtained. 
Some Queensland gold contains as much as 20 per cent. of 
silver, &c., while other is of a very much higher standard. Gold 
from the Hodgkinson field is valued at from 43 3s. to £3 14s. 
per oz.; from the Minnie Moxham, Northcote, where it occurs 
with stibnite in quartz, at about £3 19s.; from Charters Towers 
at about £3 8s. ; from the Palmer at from 43 18s. to £4 3. 4d.; 
from the Gladstone fields at about £3 1os.; while the Mount 
Morgan gold is almost pure, assaying 99.7 per cent. gold, the rest 
being copper with sometimes a trace of iron or silver, and valued 
at £4 4s. 8d. per oz. Gold from Maryborough, on the other 
hand, contains only 85 per cent. of gold (Liebius). 
On the Palmer goldfield gold is found in a dense white crystal- 
line quartz, sometimes accompanied by mispickel; gold also 
occurs in the stream tin of Granite Creek, about 25 miles from 
Maytown, being probably derived from the slates forming the 
western side of the creek. 
On the Hodgkinson field free gold occurs in quartz, sometimes 
accompanied by galena; mispickel and sphalerite are generally 
auriferous on the field and in the reefs of the eastern side the 
quartz generally contains some galena, iron pyrites, and sphalerite. 
At Northcote auriferous quartz containing stibnite has yielded 
over 2 ozs. of gold to the ton ; this association is similar to that of 
some of the antimony mines of Victoria and New South Wales, and 
the same has been noticed in the stream Nam It, in Poket, Siam. 
On the Ravenswood field auriferous sphalerite, especially when 
associated with iron pyrites, is a very notable feature, calcite being 
often met with in the same locality ; chalcopyrites, galena, and a 
little mispckel are also here found to be auriferous. Iron pyrites 
and mispickel from the Australia Felix were said to have assayed 
as high as 20 oz. to the ton. Free gold has been noticed on this 
field in galena, cerussite, limonite, and limonite mixed with 
malachite. 
