‘90 
Mines and Mineral Statistics, 
■whicli tlie projected lines of railway will in the course of a few 
years bo carried, which, with the facilities afibrded thereby, will 
^ive profitable employment to a very large number of miners, 
and will raise the yield of copper to an extent commensurate 
with the value of our deposits. 
Copper, the produce of the Colony of New South Wales. 
Copper. 
Copper Ore. 
Year. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Total value. 
Tons. 
£ 
Tons. 
£ 
£ 
1858 
58 
1,400 
] ,400 
1859 
150 
2^250 
2 250 
1860 
43 
1,^36 . 
1,535 
1861 
144 
3,390 
3,390 
1862 
2,200 
12'000 
12 000 
1863 
125 
12,500 
12 500 
1864 
2,100 
22,100 
22 100 
1865 
295 
29,491 
liois 
7',854 
37,345 
1866 
304 
23,390 
917 
4,745 
28,135 
1867 
296 
19,866 
2,590 
15,450 
35,316 
1868 
315 
21,420 
3,151 
12,780 
34,200 
1869 
324 
21,446 
1,437 
5,400 
26,846 
1870 
297 
20,060 
84 
336 
20,396 
1871 
6f)5 
47,231 
44 
47,275 
1872 
419 
36,770 
1,466 
17,873 
54,643 
1873 
150 
14,500 
5,877 
142,126 
156,626 
1874 
3,638 
311,519 
311,519 
6,828 
£558,193 
21,897^- 
£249,283 
£807,476 
The quintity of copper ore during 1SV4 could not be ascertained. 
That given above is the quantity of copper exjjorted. 
The following extracts from reports furnished by Mining Regis- 
trars and others will convey some idea of the extent to wliich 
copper-mining has been carried, though unfortunately the reports 
are very far f rom complete, and no return has been made from 
some important mines. 
The Bclara Copper Mine, 20 miles from Grulgong, county 
Eligh; loO tons at grass; no analysis yet made; lode 2 feet 
thick ; strike N. and S. ; dip 2 in 6. 
Tlie Frogmore Copper Company, at Frog’s Hole, in the parish 
of Eula; six men employed; 70 tons of ore raised; no analysis 
yet made ; the average thickness of lode at 75 feet is 3 ft. 0 in., 
consisting of carbonates and sulphnrets ; strike of lode north- 
west ; no analysis yet made ; ore is estimated to contain 12 per 
