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Gold Produced in the Various Mining Districts of 

 Tasmania between 1866 and 1884. 



DISTRICT. 



Alluvial. Quartz, 



Beaconsfield 



Lefroy and Back Creek.... 



Lisle 



Mangana and Black Boy... 



West Coast 



Fingal 



Mount Victoria 



Waterhouse and Denison... 



Gladstone 



Hellyer 



Minnow Biver & Forth Biver 



Cam 



Branxholm 



Other places 



Total 



Per cent to total . 



ozs. 

 30,900 



8,575 

 62.800 



5,970 

 11,907 



2,171 



60 



585 



200 



192 



50 



1,322 



124,732 



32 '96 



ozs. 



150,484 



77,435 



9,994 



6,734 

 4,195 

 2,548 

 1,674 



13 



552 



253,636 



Total. 



ozs. 



181,384 



86,010 



62,800 



15,964 



11,907 



8,905 



4,195 



2,608 



1,674 



585 



207 



192 



63 



1,874 



378,368* 



Per cent. 

 to Total. 



47' 

 22' 

 16' 

 4 

 3 

 2 

 1 



94 

 73 



70 

 '21 

 •20 

 '35 

 '01 

 •67 

 •44 

 ■15 

 •05 

 ■05 

 •01 

 •49 



67-04 



100 '00 



lOO'OO 



* The value is estimated at £1,453,309. 

 GOLD BEEPS. 



Gold reefs in Tasmania have not yet been worked to any 

 great depth. The following particulars with respect to the 

 principal shafts sunk have been kindly supplied to me by Mr. 

 C. J. Atkins : — ■ 

 District. Depth of Jhaft, mrectim of Reef _ 



Lefroy — 



New Native Chum 812 Strike east and west] 



New Chum 404 „ east and west 6° S. 



Mathmna — 



City of Hobart 650 „ north and south (a little 



Beaconsfield— to east of south.) 



Lefroy Co 400 „ east and west, dipping south 



Tasmania 277 J „ ditto. 



Florence 268 „ ditto. 



Daily's United 200 „ ditto. 



South Eslc — 



Chesterfield's shaft 270? 



These reefs vary from a few inches to 5 feet in width. b 



a Victorian Year Book, 1885, p. S85. 



b The so-called auriferous "lode" at Mount Lycll is stated to be over 280 feet 

 thick. It is ferrugineous rather than quartziferous in character. 



