Mi nes and Mineral Statistics. 
93 
SILVER. 
It is clear tliat the returns of the quantity and value of the 
silver ore raised and of the silver extracted are very incomplete, 
indeed there is no record of the quantity produced between 1SG5 
and ISOO, Inquiries will be made with a view to suppl}^ the 
defects in the returns, but it is not possible to complete such 
inquiries in time to embody the results in the table, which will 
tliereforc be accepted as representing only some portion of the 
silver produced. 
Silver, the produce of the Colony of New South Wales. 
Year. 
Quantity. 
Value, 
1SG2 
2GG tons (ore) say 
£ 
5,320 
18G3 
2S „ „ 
1,080 
18G4 
13 „ „ 
130 
1SG5 
• 73G ozs. silver. 
184 
18GG 
Nil. 
18G7 
Nil. 
18G8 
Nil. 
18G9 
ozs. dwts. 
753 
199 
1870 
13,SG8 G 
3,801 
1871 
71,311 IS 
18,GS1 
1872 
49,511. 17 
12,GG3 
1 1873 
GG,997 10 
1G,278 
I 1S74 
78,027 0 
18,880 
1 
t 
307 tons ore + 281,233 ozs. 11 dwts. silver. 
£77,21G 
# 
ANTIMONY. 
But little attention appears to have been paid to tlie extraction 
of this mineral, though it has been discovered in various parts of 
the Colony in such quantities as should, under fiivourable cir- 
cumstances, render the Avorking of it a ])roIitable employment. 
As the mineral resources of the Colony come to be better known 
and appreciated, there is no doubt antimony Avill be raised in 
larger quantities, and will form an important item in our returns. 
