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From the eret of Àmerica sere to 1600—108 years... 41,000, 
From 1600 ... 80,000,000 
| ( Am .. 100,000,0 
From 1700 to 1800 i Ande) Ruki 27,000,000 
248,000,000 
( America 60,000,000 
From 1801 to 1850 t Russia ,000, 
50 years 90,000,000 
Ameriea, excluding selena say... ,000, 
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From 1851 to 1860 4 California = Gages 
ssia 7,000,000 
10 years .. 62,000,000 
( nase and British Columbia ... 11,200,000 
Aust w. 18,300,000 
From 1861 to 1867 Rest ‘of America ‘and Russia, say ... 8,400,000 
( New Zealand .. 8,800,000 
: 36,400,000 
TorAL Amount, 1492 To 1867. 
Russian Dominions 33,734,000 
Europe (Austria) 3,271,000 
Southern Asia (East Indies) . 11,300, 
Africa 2,436,000 
South erica 26,136,900 
United States i SN PR e .. 52,400, 
British Columbia  ... s R ni «co 1,440; 
Australia bes vee ies .. 99,183,000 
New Zealand, to Jos d 1868 .. r3 ast . . 8,906,500* 
173,806,500 
Thus the Average Annual Yield of Gold has been for the— 
OZ. 
mes century se e .. . 800,000 
à id .. 1,270,000 
oi to 1850 1,800,000 
1851 to 6,200,000 
1861 to 1867 Gucluding New Zealand to 
date) ,002,000 
In reporting some of the most mrig EN of the labours of the 
Geologieal Department since last meeting, Dr. Hector said that there had 
been upwards of five hundred analyses made in the laboratory, and the 
results of each had been entered in a book, which was open for inspection by 
members. The principal analyses recently made were of samples from the 
large deposits of brown coal which had been found in Southland. This coal 
occurred in seams of great thickness, being in. some places over thirty-five 
feet thick ; and though it was inferior in quality to the coal on the West 
25 Coast, it would no doubt prove of great local value, and perhaps be extensively 
Tie total yield of gold in New Zealand from 30th April, 1857, to 31st December, 
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