2.U BROWN & HERON: GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF TAVOY. 



economic importance, and the mining engineers of the field were 

 asked to give their views on the subject, as it was felt that they were 

 in a better position to gather evidence of the required kind than any- 

 one else. Their answers are given below : — 



Mr. A. W. Ross, Hermyitngyi.—" There are indications that 

 wolfram and tin-stone occur in shoots in the veins but it 

 is too little to call evidence." 



Mr. II. N. Rees, Widnes.— ' We have not done sufficient work- 

 to enable me to pass an opinion." 



Mr. J. Finlayson, Kanbauk.— * 1 am of the opinion that wolfram 



does occur in well-marked vertical shoots at Kanbauk. 



Mr. A. II. Morgan, Pagaye. — " The wolfram and tin-stone is 

 unevenly distributed throughout the veins and the richer 

 patches may be termed ore shoots, but they are not abso- 

 lutely isolated, there are usually specks or small bunches 

 of ore in between." 



Mr. E. MascweU-Lefroy, Tavoy Concessions.- "I have never 

 remarked any shoots anywhere in the district. It is of 

 course difficult to judge when one is on a shoot unless 

 the mine is regularly laid out with adits one under the other 

 and connecting winzes. Sporadic mineralization is essen- 

 tially a feature of Tavoy veins and veinlets, I should think." 



Mr. W. Croslei/, PaungdatD.— '' I am inclined to form the opinion 

 based upon the extremely capricious occurrences of tin; 

 mineral that shoots, so common in gold bearing veins, are 

 quite unknown in this district, or at any rate in my conces- 

 sion." 



Mr. H. R. Mack ill i<j in, Rubber Mile. — ; There is no evidence 

 to show that wolfram runs in shoots, in fact it seems probable 

 that it occurs in irregular patches." 



Mr. II. G. Mathews, Wagon and Pachaung. — ; ' I have never 

 seen anything which looked like a shoot on any of the 

 veins. The wolfram occurs in bunches." 



Mr. R. C. N. Twite, Siiibo-Sinma. — " My experience is that the 

 ore, both tin and wolfram, does occur in irregular shoots 

 and bunches and that in the majority of cases the vein 

 is composed of base quartz between the shoots. I have 

 also noticed that the bunches of ore are rich at the junc- 

 tion where a vein surrounds a horse." 



