IRON. *)5 



obtain any information as to when the smelters were in opera- 

 tion. 



Iron ores are mined and cast iron pans made at Lu-tzu, a village 



T pa T1 . two stages north-east of Lu-feng Hsien. 



Lu-feng Hsien. . , - « 



lnese pans are used in the salt fields around 

 Lan-ching. 



Hematite ores occur in bands in the local Kao-liang slates 



between Mo-so-ing and Yi-men Hsien and 



\i-men Hsien. , . ., - 



there is said to be a mine employing 30 men 

 north of Yang-hsing-ch'uan, a village on this route. 



A small mine was reported to be working in 1908 at Si-ha, near 

 Keng-ma (lat. 23° Ta-chai, on the Kun-lon Ferry — Yiin Chou 

 32* : long, or 28'.) r oute, in the Chinese Shan State of Kcng-ma. 

 If Chinese evidence can be relied upon, one of the more 

 Meng-hua T'ing important iron-producing regions of Yunnan 



(lat. 25° 15': long, is located around Hsi-shan-kai. This place 



'" is said to lie one stage north-west of Ta- 



tsang-kai, a large village near the head of the Meng-hua Ting 

 valley, and about halfway between that city and Ta-li Fu. If 

 the distance given me is correct, the deposits probably occur in the 

 Upper Permian Red Beds series. I was informed that the mines 

 work all the year round, that they find employment for a force of 

 between 300 and 400 men and that they supply the cities of Meng- 

 hua Ting, Ta-li Fu and Li-chiang Fu with the metal. This may 

 be the same as the Shuang-lung-tung locality mentioned by 

 Davies. (D., p. 148). 

 xr m,. Iron ores are said to be smelted at Pe- 



Yung-pei iiBg 



(lat. 26° 45' : long, chao-pa, six stages in an unknown direction 

 100 ° 45 '>- from Yung-pei Ting. 



ri ; . T • Specimens of specular iron ore were brought 



(lat. 24° 2(i' : long, to me by a Chinese official in Ching-tung 

 100 - '• T'ing which were said to come from the hills 



near that city. 



In the Yunnan course of the Yangtze, on the route from Yung- 

 pei Ting to Hui-li Chou in Ssu-ch'uan, 

 "i angtze valley. i \ T , -in • «• *s- 



between Hsm-chuang and ban-tm-tz u, at 



nine miles from the former village, there are exposures of diorite 

 traversed by films of serpentine and thin layers of practically pure 

 iron oxides. I do not regard the occurrence as economically 

 important. 



