7 
(5) Eeport (A. Gibb Maitland) on tbe Coolgarra Tin Mines and Surrounding 
District, 1891. 
(6) Mineral Lands Commissioner’s Deports in Annual Deports of tbe Depart- 
ment of Mines. 
Yieid of Heebeeton Tin Field. 
Tear. 
LODE TIN OIIE. 
Stream 
Tin Ore. 
Stone 
Yield of 
Total. 
Value. 
Eemarks. 

Cruslied. 
Black Tin. 
*1879 
*1880 
*1881 
*1883 
tl883 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons 
cwt. 
£ 
1^405 
i'ete 
131 
193 
1,183 
1,810 
9 
11 
10 
2 
r 
5,260 
7,740 
47,340 
72,400 
Exported 
}J 
J> 
)} 
Raised 
tl883 
“Bagging 
Oi'P 
100 
... f 
3,346 
109,740 
a 
+1883 
+1884 
+1884 
+1885 
11,031 
12,834 
1,002 
2,096 
600 ) 
... T 
450) 
250 
2,352 
2,346 
1 
»S 
0 
25.200 
68,474 
16.200 
117,787 
}i 
Raised ; 651 tons black tin 
smelted at Irvinebank yielded 
+1886 
+1886 
14,811 
2,198 
... 1 
2,448 
109,920 
438 tons tin 
Raised ; 606f tons black tin 
250) 
13,000 
smelted at Irvinebank yielded 
+188? 
+1888 
+1889 
+1890 
12,143 
11,159 
14,476 
13,700 
1,508 
1,390 
1,561 
1,690 
300 
171 
258 
341 
1,808 
1,561 
1,818 
2,031 
0 
0 
0 
0 
126,560 
78,150 
90,900 
104,050 
416i tons tin 
Raised 
ii 
Totals 
21,028 12 
992,721 
kangaroo hills and running creek tin and silver fields. 
Stream tin ore has been worked on Dunning Creek as far back as 1875, but no 
ecorc s of the output are now obtainable. The following account of this district is 
a on rom a Deport J on the Geology and Mineral Desources of the Diiper Burdekin, by 
Jjrr. A. Gibb Maitland 
I Ihere is no map in existence showing the relations which the various claims 
creeks on the Kangaroo Hills Tin Dield bear to one another. 
g , '^1'® portion of the stream tin workings exists near the confluence of 
II y and Prospectors’ Creeks — tributaries of Oakey Creek — at an estimated altitude, 
y aneroid, of 2,113 feet above the level of the sea. 
^ At the time of my visit to the field, in .Tune, 1890, it was practically deserted. 
ew men were at work. In some cases the creeks and gullies were bemg ‘ raked ’ for 
the second or third time. 
of tin obtained throughout the field is the binoxide (cassiterite), which 
no bounded fragments and broken crystals, generally of a reddish colour, and of 
gicat size. In some of the claims I saw a few of an amber colour, but they 
not appear to be very common. 
From Return to the Legislative Assembly of Tin Ore exported from Tinaroo District, 1886. 
+ Lands Commissioner’s Report in Annual Reports of the Department of Mines. 
+ r cp. Brisbane : by Authority ; 1891. 
