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The Courtundie and Malia, and the Coonbaralba Eanges of the 

 Barrier will, it is to be presumed, some day furnish their quota 

 to the general fund of mineral wealth. 



Some years since, in compliance with a suggestion of my own, 

 a search for gold was instituted in the Barrier, but the season 

 was unfavourable, and it was not successful. I am, nevertheless, 

 of opinion that there are indications of metallic wealth in that 

 rocky region which will be hereafter turned to good account. 



Recently, copper lodes have been taken up near the head of 

 the Began, — at Buckenba, at Burrawang, and not many miles 

 from the dividing ridge between the Little River and Lachlan 

 "Waters. Nine years since I examined those lodes, and found 

 them exhibiting the usual indications of copper as observed in 

 New South "Wales, and I have since been impressed with the 

 great value of the whole area between Molong, Croker's Range, 

 and the head of the Began River. On Buckenba Creek gold 

 also exists in various localities. 



Similarly we may notice the development of copper to the 

 south of Bathurst, in the G-reat Cow Flat Mine, which I visited 

 two months ago, and which is not far from another mine visited by 

 me in 1863 — and the extension of copper-mining in Queensland 

 as at Peak Downs, Mount Perry, Rawbelle, and Gladstone — 

 which are realizing some of the expectations before expressed by 

 me to this Society in relation to Queensland. 



Some excitement has been occasioned by discoveries of a con- 

 glomerate ore of gold, silver, and copper, near Gympie. It is 

 ascertained to be very rich. This is not however a solitary case. 

 In Maneero too there has been foimd copper alloyed with 

 antimony ; and I have a specimen from near Bathurst, in which 

 no less than eighteen ores and other minerals are combined 

 together. Silver and gold, silver and lead, silver and copper, are 

 common. But in general such combiaations as three or more 

 are not considered encouraging. 



It is time to conclude. But before I do so I must not omit a 

 further allusion to that great Colony. 



