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niferous wash lies under a volcanic basalt, at a depth of 170 
feet from surface. It is situated 4 miles west of the Sugarloaf 
Mountain, Kangaroo Elat, and 20 miles noidh-west from Vege- 
table Creek. 
No. 23. A samjde of stream tin from the Gulf Stream Tin 
Mining Company, at the Gulf Creek, 20 miles north from Vege- 
table Creek. 
It may be observed how very fine and gray this tin is, and the 
extraordinary fact of the ore in that part of the tin mines is that 
it is of the two extremes, either very fine and gray like this 
sample, or very heavy coarse lumps of tin the size of a pigeon’s 
egg to 100 pounds. 
No. 24, A sample of steam tin from Campbell Leasehold, 
situated a quarter mile south of the main workings in Vegetable 
Creek bed, and adjoins east of tlie Vegetable Creek Tin Mining 
Company’s mine, and is on the same line of lead worked by the 
above Company, but in shallow ground. 
!Most of the dirt from grass to bed rock is sluiced, and pays 
handsomely. 
No. 25. A sample of stream tin from the Glen Creek Tin 
Mining Company. This property is on the Glen Creek, and is seven 
miles north-east of Vegetable Creek. The surfacing on the hills in 
this portion of the Division is very good, but requires some dificrent 
sort of washing process than what is used there at present (sluice 
forks and small boxes), for it is wash-dirt that does not require 
the extra expense of puddling; but a good portion of the large 
area of surfacing about the Glen Creek only requires some 
washing to despatch a large quantity of dirt through per day, 
for the prospects are not rich, but such a quantity of it could be 
broke at a small expense. Several lodes and quartz with tin 
have been found, and although large tracts of mineral land have 
been taken up for that description of mining, yet no work in the 
Avay of prospecting or testing the lodes has been done yet. 
There are two largo Companies own several hundred acres 
apiece on the Glen Creek — The Glen Creek Tin Mining Company, 
and The Banca Tin Mining Company — but no work of any 
account is being done on either of the propei'ties. 
The bottom or bed rock is clay-stone and also granite. 
No. 26. A specimen of stream tin from the Glen Creek, at its 
junction with the Tent Hill Creek, four miles east of Vegetable 
'Creek. 
A great difference is observed between these two last samples 
(Nos. 25 and 26). Although they are both from the same creek, 
yet the tin is of a different colour — ouly to bo accounted for by 
the different formation of the rock in the two places. Where 
this sample. No. 26, was got from, the bed rock is hard stratified 
granite. 
