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references to the discovery by himself of gold on the Broken River, 

 Burdekin Valley. 



In 1864 he entered into partnership in Maryvale cattle station 

 with William Hann, and making the station his headquarters, 

 extended his geological observations to the north and north-west. 

 (SEE MAPS Q, O, P, K AND L.) 



In the three years that followed, he appears to have visited 

 the Flinders and Gulf country, and probably the Cook district. 

 But he was such an impersonal writer that it is impossible to 

 construct a satisfactory itinerary from his description of localities, 

 and it is equally impossible to distinguish between his own obser- 

 vations and those made by somebody else. As he was a geologist 

 of keen insight, his own observations would be worthy of the 

 highest respect, while the hearsay evidence of an unnamed " some- 

 body else " might or might not deserve consideration. 



On 23rd July, 1867, he wrote from Maryvale to the Rev. W. B. 

 Clarke, sending his notes with permission to the latter to use them 

 at his discretion. The result was a paper read by Clarke on 

 9th September, 1867, on " The Auriferous and Metalliferous 

 Districts of North Queensland " before the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales. The paper refers to the discovery of COPPER at 

 CLONCURRY by ERNEST HENRY, the discovery by DAINTREE of 

 COPPER at the " LYND " 1 MINE at the junction of the Einasleigh 

 and Copperfield Rivers, and of GOLD at the head of the GILBERT 

 RIVER. 



It may be said here that Daintree " selected " and made a 

 freehold of the " Lynd " Copper Mine, and, with his partner Hann, 

 worked it in a desultory fashion for a few years. The low price 

 of copper and the high cost of everything else, including carriage 

 to the nearest port, soon brought about the inevitable consequence, 

 although the ore was exceedingly rich. It was not till 1898 that the 

 extension of railway facilities enabled the mine to be reopened 

 under sounder economic conditions and by that time it was not 

 the pioneers who were to reap the benefit. 



Ravenswood, Mount Wyatt and Cape River Goldfields, etc." Dated Maryvale, 29th 

 August, 1870. Leg. Ass. Papers for 1870. 



Queensland, Australia: Its Territory, Climate and Products, Agricultural, Pastoral 

 and Mineral, etc., etc., with Map of Mineral Areas, by Richard Daintree, Agent-General, 

 London. No date ; but probably 1873. 



" Notes on the Geology of the Colony of Queensland by Richard Daintree, Esq., F.G.S. 

 With Geol. Map and an Appendix containing Descriptions of the Fossils by Robert 

 Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., and W. Carruthers, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S." Read 

 24th April, 1872. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. t Vol. XXVIII, 1872. 



" Geology of Queensland, as Represented at London Exhibition, 1871." Leg. Ass. 

 Papers for 1872. 



Handbook for Immigrants to Queensland, by Richard Daintree. London, 1875. 



" Richard Daintree, C.M.G., F.G.S., An Obituary," by Robert Etheridge, Junior. 

 Geol. Mag. for 1878, p. 429. 



Heaton's Australian Dictionary and Men of the Time. Sydney, 1879, p. 50. 



1 Now known as the " Einas'leigh " Copper Mine. Although Carpentaria Downs 

 station had by this time been established on the Upper Einasleigh, the river was still 

 believed to be Leichhardt's Lynd River. 



