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in the Gippsland District, and at Bethanja, Specimen Gully, St. Arnaud, and on tin- 

 Thompson River, and in smaller quantities near Sandhurst and Castlemaine. In On, ens- 

 land, the operations have been much more extensive. The richest "finds" in that colony 

 have been made at Clermont, Cloncurry and Mount Perry. Nine hundred tons of on- 





were raised in 1886 in Queens- 

 land, valued at 7,000. South 

 Australia heads the list for the 

 same year with a total output 

 of 14,782 tons, valued at ,58,538. 

 In 1888 the output was 3,165^ 

 tons, valued at ,327,227; by 

 86,894 less than the value 

 of the output of 1887. The 

 total value of copper and copper- 

 ore produced in Australia to the 

 end of 1889 was ,25,058, 268. 



The principal mines in South Australia are those of Burra Burra, Moonta, Wallaroo ; 

 Yudanamutana and Blinman in the North ; Poona, Doora, Kurilla, Mount Coffin, 

 Kapunda, Purnamuta and the Victory Mines. Considerably more than half a million tons 

 of ore were taken out of South Australian mines up to the end of 1886. In Tasmania 

 and Western Australia the practical indications of copper have so far been unimportant. 

 New Zealand has shown traces at Port Augusta, Mai Tai, Ducky Sound, D'Urville 

 Island, Nelson, and Paterson's Inlet, but the workings have not been continued payable. 



THE TIN MINES NEAR EMMAVILLE, NEW SOUTH WALES. 



