6 MINING DISTRICTS OF LOWER PERAK. 



The metal is sent on elephants to Pengkalen Barn on Sungei 

 Raya, where it is shipped for Durian Sa'batang, but a better 

 mode of transport will shortly be available when the Govern- 

 ment has completed the fine cart-road which is now being made 

 from Gopeng to Kota Barn on the Ennta river. 



Several other surface works have been started among the 

 small hills lying between Gopeng and Pengkalen Barn; they are 

 of but small importance, but they return very pure ore, which 

 smelts easily and gives as much as 70 katties of metal to one 

 pikul of ore, the percentage being consequently 70 per cent. 



It will be noticed that, as a rule, the surface mines known by 

 the name of " Lampong Works " produce much cleaner ore 

 than deep works, owing probably to the fact that the surface 

 soil is lighter than the deeper wash, formed of feldspar and 

 quartz, and is consequently easier to separate by washing : 

 another reason is also that in the " Lampong Works" the miners 

 do not generally smelt their own ore, but sell it, and have often 

 to carry it to a considerable distance, whence the utility of 

 taking greater pains in the dressing. 

 SungeiKam- This district is one of the largest, but has been little visited 



par district. ° 



up to now. Chinamen, however, have just begun starting- 

 works on their own account, principally at Klian GCmong, 

 where the tin is found deposited in the fissures and crevices of 

 the limestone. 



A certain amount of tin is also found in the bed of the main 

 stream and the natives in several places work it profitably. 



At Kampong Snudong, on the western slope of Birjang 

 snu- Malacca, a Malay mine is being worked on an entirely native 

 principle. 



The ore is disseminated throughout the ground, which is 

 slightly argillaceous, but friable and easy to wash. 



Small canals have been brought from the river and run at 

 the foot of the different cuttings. The ground is cut down and 

 thrown in those canals and dressed like in a sluice-box, the 

 height of the face is from 10 to 15 feet ; when the ground 

 has been stripped to the level of the water, it is divided into 



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