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all tlie riclier and easier smelting ores are nearly worked out. The 

 same may be said of tte Nymagee and tlie Mount Hope mines situated 

 in the same tract of country as Cobar. 



Copper lodes and deposits bave also been worked, and some of tbem 

 are still vrorking witb profitable results (one formerly known as 

 Thompson's Creek, now Burraga, has employed a large number of 

 persons for the last eighteen years), at the Canoblas, Cadia, Peel- 

 wood, Cow Flat, Wiseman's Creek, Carcoar, Molong, Goodrich, 

 Balara, Snowball, Frogmore, Currawang, Wellington, Murrvimbidgee, 

 and other districts. Thus it will be seen that New South Wales 

 possesses a large area of cupriferous country which, with improved 

 machinery and methods must sooner or later greatly add to this 

 Colony's output of copper. Although the low market price of copper 

 has greatly retarded enterprise in copper-mining ; nevertheless there 

 are at present about 1,500 miners profitably employed in the industry. 



Tin. 



Our principal tin deposits occur in the Vegetable Creek (Emma- 

 ville). Copes Creek, the Inverell and Tenterfield districts. The stanni- 

 ferous deposits, as far as is known, occupy an area of 5,500,000 acres. 

 Tin, both in alluvial as well as lodes, has also been found at Jingellic 

 and Dora Creek, Albury district ; also at Tumbarumba, and at Sandy 

 Ci'eek, Tumut district ; also at Tibooburra, and some Toadseye or 

 Wood Tin has been discovered in the auriferous drifts at Milkman's 

 Flat, near Grenfell. But as stated above, the Tenterfield and Glen 

 Inues districts have supplied the principal of our tin pi-oductions. 



Some of the alluvial stanniferous deposits were very rich, and in 

 some instances as much as 10 feet in thickness has yielded oOO cwt. of 

 stream tin of 72 per cent, to the ton. Large fortunes have been made 

 by working miners in alluvial tin-mining ; but so far, with the excep- 

 tion of one lode near Tent Hill, Emmaville, known as the Ottery Lode, 

 few, if any, of the numerous lodes have had even a fair trial. 



Professor David, one of New South Wales's most eminent geologists, 

 gives it as his opinion that very extensive stanniferous areas covered 

 over by basalt will sooner or later be prospected and worked, and 

 bring forth a large increase in the production of tin ore. Careful 

 geological surveys made by Professor David have brought out facts on 

 which he based his belief that numbers of deep channels or leads 

 covered over by basalt, are still lying undisturbed ; hence, with the 

 rise in the price of tin, we may look forward to a great production of 

 tin, and a healthy reaction in that industry. About 1,500 miners are 

 still employed in tin-mining. 



Antivionij. 



Antimony in payable quantities has been found in several parts of 

 the Colony, but principally in the northern district. At Hillgrove, in 

 the Armidale district, the Eleanora Company alone produced several 

 hundred tons of smelted antimony, which is only one company of 

 many. A large quantity of antimony is also produced in the Hillgrove 

 district by individual miners. Deposits of antimony have also been 

 discovered at Lunatic Reefs, in the Drake district, at Deep Creek near 



