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QUEENSLAND (Continued) 



908. GREGORY, T. F. Tin in Queensland. 



Journ. Soc. Arts, Vol. 20, 1872, London, pp. 853-8.54. 



A communication from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Council in 

 which he describes the stanniferous country geologically and gives its extent. 



909. . A report on the tin discoveries in Queensland. 



Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, Vol. 29, 1873, London, pp. 1-5. 



Abstract: Mg. Journ. Railw. Comm. Gaz., Vol. 42, 1872, London, p. 1105. 



Abstract: Geol. Mag., 1872, London, p. 569. 



Tin ore discovered in district situated about the head waters of Severn River and 

 its tributaries, comprising area of about 550 square miles. District is described as an 

 elevated granite tableland intersected by ranges of abrupt hills, some 3000 feet above 

 sea. Richest deposits are found in beds of streams and in the alluvial flats along 

 their banks. 



910. HALDANE, A. C. 



Ann. Rep. Under-Secretary for Mines, Queensland, for 1897 (1898;, Brisbane, 

 pp. 102-105. 

 Progress in mining in the Herberton tin mining district is described. 



911. . Herberton (Walsh and Tinnaroo) fields. 



Ann. Rep. of the Under-Secretary for Mines, Queensland, for 1904 (1905), Brisbane, 

 pp. 68-71. 



912. HORSLEY, SYDNEY. Report upon the Kangaroo Hills and Star River 



mineral fields. 



Ann. Rep. Under-Secretary for Mines, Queensland, 1904 (1905), Brisbane, p. 110. 



913. HUME, W. C. Report on the Queensland tin fields. 



1874, pp. 31. 



Not available to the authors. 



914. JACK, ROBT. L. Report on the Wild River tin mines. 



Geol. Surv. Rep., North Queensland, Pub. No. 9, 1881, Brisbane, pp. 8-10, map 1. 

 Reconnaissance report upon the tin mines in the vicinity of Wild River. 



915. -> . On the Stanthorpe tin mining district. 



Geol. Surv. Rep., Queensland, Pub. No. 12, 1882, Brisbane, pp. 1-2. 



" As it will be necessary for me to return to the district and make a survey of 

 the field, I confine myself, in the meantime, to putting on record in general terms, 

 the -conclusions to which I have been led, and my strong faith in the probability of 

 discovering payable deposits of ore in the rocks from which the vast stream deposits 

 were originally derived." 



916. . On the tin mines of Herberton, Western and Thompson's Creek 



districts and the silver mines of the Dry River. 



Geol. Surv. Rep., Queensland, Pub. No. 13, 1883, Brisbane, pp. 3-32, with geol. 

 maps 2 and 6 plates of sections. 



Abstract: Eng. Mg. Journ. Vol. 37, 1884, New York, p. 353. 



The intimate connection of the tin deposits with metamorphosed igneous rocks is 

 shown. The claims in the various districts are treated separately. 



917. . On the tin mines near Cooktown. 



Geol. Surv. Rep., Queensland, Pub. No. G6, 1891, Brisbane, pp. 1-9. Geol. map and 2 

 sheet plans. 

 Describes the mines of the region in detail. 



