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WESTERN AUSTRALIA (Continued) 



1270. "STANNIFER." The Greenbushes tin fields (Western Australia). 



Austr. Mg. Stand., Vol. 18, 1900, Sydney and Melbourne, p. 811. 



Describes country geologically and geographically, and gives an account of both 

 stream and lode deposits, the prospects of which he considers are good. 



1271. TALBOT, . Wodgina tin field. 



Rep. Dep. Mines for 1905, Western Australia, 1906, Perth, pp. 126-128, sketch map 1. 



Wodgina is at headwaters of western branch of the Turner River, and within limits 

 of the Pilbara goldfield, about 74 miles from Port Hedland. District bids fair to rise 

 to importance as tin and tantalite producer. 



1272. WOODWABD, H. P. Coal and tin in West Australia. 



Geol. Mag., n. s., Vpl. 6, 1889, London, p. 432. 



Thinks discoveries of tin at Bridgetown seems to indicate the biggest thing of the 

 kind that has ever been found. One shaft 18 feet deep will average all the way down 

 about 4 or 5 pounds to the pan. Tin found at surface in sand over area of about 100 

 square miles. 



1273. WOODWARD, HARRY P. Greenbushes tin field (with special reference to 



the deep leads). 



Western Australia Geol. Surv. Bull. 32, 1908, Perth, pp. 1-75, maps 3, pis. 3. 

 A general description of the district and its mineralogy with detailed descriptions of 

 claims. 



WOOLNOUGH, W. G. See No. 1649. 



WYOMING 



ANONYMOUS. See No. 985. 



1274. AUGHEY, SAMUEL. Minerals of Wyoming territory. 



Annual Report of the Territorial Geologist, 1886, Laramie, p. 111. 

 Tin occurs near Rawhide Buttes in minute quantities, also in small quantities in 

 Silver Crown district. 



1275. BENEDICT, WM. DE L. Tin in Wyoming. 



Min. Ind. for 1892, Vol. I, 1893, New York, p. 454. 



Area of tin-bearing rocks extends to granite district west and south of Custer City, 

 South Dakota, throughout Nigger Hill district, and into Wyoming. 



CHANCE, H. M. See No. 1002. 



1276. RICKETTS, Louis D. Tin in Wyoming. 



Annual Report of the Territorial Geologist Wyoming, 1890, Cheyenne, pp. 74-75. 



The tin described in this report is in the Black Hills, Crook County. The cassite- 

 rite occurs in imperfect crystals [rare], granules, and grains scattered through dikes 

 of quartz, feldspar and mica, which cut the granite country rock. Samples 

 yielded from 2 to 6 per cent metallic tin, and those samples showing no tin minerals 

 from 2 to 4 per cent. Stream tin in fine particles has been found in all gulches that 

 cut the granite dikes. 



SADTLEB, B. See No. 1016. 



