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The silver mines of Yung-ch'ing and Ma-lin were situated to 

 tIie south of the Nmg-tai Copper mine, itself 



Mum-nin-' iu pre- r(m v ,1 ,-, , -,, . „ 



fecture. 5 ^° " to the south of Shun-nmg Fu. These 



mines were more or less under tlie control of 

 the prefect of Shun-ning Fu, although in the territory of a semi- 

 independent chief, but they fell into the hands of the rebels and 

 after that reported no production to the Government. 



Lead and gold occurred with the copper ores from the Chin- 



ch'ai mine, 90 li south-west of Meng-tzu, which 



lure. was opened during the reign of the emperor 



Ch'ien-lung. 



Silver occurs with the tin, copper, zinc and iron ores of the 



Ko-chin massif. The mine of Lung-chou contained numerous lodes 



of argentiferous galena, and the rich deposits of the Meng-ho mine 



were no less remarkable. 



U 

 The Pai-yang mine, north-west of T]i Fu, in the Vim-lung 



_ ,. „ Chou district, was at one time worked only 



la-h Fa prefeo- r -, • ■> . , n , , , . * 



ture. tor lts silver minerals, but, later, copper lodes 



were discovered, and when the rebellion broke 



out, both metals were being produced. The Ta-kun mine, situated 



a little to the north of the former, was opened a short time after 



it but its production was not so important, There was another 



silver mine at Ta-mei-ti. 



The silver mines of this prefecture though not numerous were 



,_, . . „ very productive. Yung-shen mine was situat- 



( . h u-hfluing l<u pre- j ,i ,, , P , T -,. . 



fecture. cd to tn e south- west of Nan-an Chou, in the 



Chin-t'i mountains. Shih-vang mine, perhaps 



the richest, was opened in the 24th year of the Emperor K'ang-hsi. 



Ma-lung mine was also situated to the south-west of Nan-an Chou. 



The ores from this mine contained gold. 



Hui-lung copper mine used to produce very rich argentiferous 



Li-chiang Fa pre- galena, Silver minerals were also mined at 



footar& Lan-shui-t'ou and Pao-p'ing. 



Only one silver mine in this district paid the Imperial dues. 



Yung-eh'ang Fa pre- It was called San-tao-k'ou. and was situated 



fccture - in the Yung-p'ing Hsicn neighbourhood. 



Several deposits of argentiferous g alena were know n in this 



region. The silver mine of Tai-ho was situat^ 



lecture. ° "^ " PI ° 0( * to * ue BOUth of Hsin-i)'ing Hsien and was 



very productive ; it was closed during the 



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