112 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 58 



MALAY PENINSULA (Continued) 



699. LOCK, C. G. WARNFORD. Tin mining and milling in Tringganu. 



Mg. Mag., Vol. 13, No. 4, 1906, New York, pp. 290-294, pis. 7. 1400 words. 



Short general description of tin mining conditions in northeastern Malay States. 



No productive mines in granite, but some in overlying slates. Tin veins often 

 have no quartz in them, being solid cassiterite. No fluorite or tourmaline. Much 

 monazite and xenotime with some zircon and ilmenite in the stream gravels. 



700. . Tin in Tringganu. 



Mg. Journ. Railw. Comm. Gaz., Vol. 79, 1906, London, p. 182. 



Gives outline of geography and geology of Tringganu, and describes both the lode 

 and alluvial deposits of the State. The veins are mostly in shales overlying granite. 

 For original article see No. 699. 



701. . Mining in Malaya for gold and tin. 



1908, London, 



Not available to the authors. 



702. Louis, HENRY. Tin in the Malayan region. 



Min. Ind. for 1895, Vol. 4, 1896, New York and London, pp. 571-573. 

 Digest of article from Mining Journal Railway and Commercial Gazette. See No. 

 1340. 



703. . Die Zinnseifen der Halbinsel Malakka. 



Zeitschr. prakt. Geol., 1896, Berlin, pp. 233-234. 

 Taken from " Western Daily Mercury," March, 1895. 



See No. 1340. 



704. Low, JAMES. Observations on the geological appearances and general 



features of portions of the Malayan Peninsula and of the countries 

 lying betwixt it and 18 N. lat., pp. 128-162. 



Book not available to authors, but a brief digest is found in Glean. Sci., Vol. 1, 

 1829, Calcutta, pp. 223-224. 



Tin-bearing ground extends in a continuous line from the southern extremity of 

 Peninsula to about 15 N. lat. No mines discovered beyond this. Mines are pits of 

 from twelve to twenty feet deep. Ore generally in round or oblong masses, with 

 well-defined crystals, in matrix of quartz, or bedded in masses resembling half 

 decomposed granite. Brief description of metallurgical processes used. 



704a. MARKS, E. SEABORN. Mining in the Malay States. 



Mg. Sci. Press, Vol. 98, 1909, San Francisco, pp. 31-36, illus. 



" A description of the climatic conditions of the country and the method of 

 mining and concentrating tin ore." 



MCKILLOP, JOHN, and ELLIS, THOS. F. See No. 1530. 



705. MEUNIER, STANISLAS. Examen chimique d'eaux mine'rales provenant de 



Malaisie mineral detain de formation actuelle. 



C. R. Acad. Sci., Vol. 110, 1890, Paris, pp. 1083-1085. 



Author " found 0.5 per cent of SnO, in an opaline deposit, resembling geyserite, 

 from a thermal spring in Selangor." See No. 726b. 



705a. MILES, EDWARD T. Notes on Tongkah tin dredging. 



Austr. Mg. Stand., Vol. 42, 1909, Sydney and Melbourne, p. 60. 

 Describes the deposits of tin and difficulties experienced in dredging in. 

 Harbor, situated on northeast side of Tongkah Island (Junk Ceylon). 



