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BURMAH (Continued) 



204. - . Second report on the tin of Mergui. 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 11, 1842, Calcutta, pp. 839-851. 



Gives more complete description of the tin-bearing ground and of the methods 

 of working, than in earlier report. 



205. - . Report of a visit to the Pakchan River, and some tin localities 



in the southern portion of the Tenasserim provinces. 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 12, 1843, Calcutta, pp. 528-534, map. 



Malewan is only spot in Province where people have located for the purpose 

 of collecting tin. Do not work veins, stream tin alone is collected. Not possible 

 to work except in rainy season, at which time one man can extract four rupees 

 worth of tin per day. Mining done by Chinese. Country rock is granite. 



206. - . Report, etc., with information concerning the price of tin 



ore of Mergui. 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 14, 1845, Calcutta, pp. 329-332. 



207. WABTH, H. Burmah tin deposits. 



Eng. Mg. Journ., Vol. 54, 1892, New York, p. 449. 



Reprint: Min. Ind. for 1892, Vol. 1, 1893, New York and London, p. 450. 



The tin deposits are of two kinds: 



1st. Tin gravels found in all or most of the valleys. Gravels are a mixture of 

 quartz, garnet, black tourmaline and gray cassiterite. 



2d. Tin-bearing deposits in original eruptive rock, which is weathered so that it 

 is possible to wash out grains of whitish cassiterite which it contains. 



The yield from deposits of second class near Malewan was only 0.04 per cent 

 of impure wash tin. 



CALIFORNIA 



208. ANONYMOUS. Sur les mines d'or, d'argent et d'etain recemment decou- 



vertes dan les environs de Los Angeles [Cal.]. 



Ann. Mines, ser. 6, Vol. 16, 1869, Paris, pp. 599-600. 



209. . California tin. 



Mg. Sci. Press, Vol. 64, 1892, San Francisco, p. 261. 



Announcement of the first shipment of pig tin from Temescal, Cal., to New 

 York, which consisted of 22,000 pounds, the output of two weeks. Said to be equal 

 to Straits Settlement tin. 



210. - . The California tin mines. 



Eng. Mg. Journ., Vol. 53, 1892, New York, p. 49. 



Short account of progress of San Jacinto tin mine during 1891. Outlook bright. 

 Tin raised for 1891 placed at 123,366 pounds having a gross value of $24,673. 



211. . Tin in California. 



Mg. Sci. Press, Vol. 82, 1901, San Francisco, p. 209. 



" The metal from Bishop Creek, Inyo Co., Cal., is tin." (Given to show 

 possible tin-bearing locality.) 



212. BENEDICT, WILLIAM, DE L. The San Jacinto (Cal.) tin mines. 



Eng. Mg. Journ., Vol. 50, 1890, New York, pp. 450-453. Editorial on same, p. 447. 



Briefly reviews the unsuccessful attempts made to exploit tin mines in the United 

 States, and the history of the San Jacinto deposits, the metal in which was long 

 thought to be silver. Compares the deposits with those of Cornwall, and gives 

 an epitome of the several reports upon the deposits from which he decides that the 

 deposits should be developed before extensive works are erected. 



