£) 
“The only returns of tlie output of the tin ore from this field are scattered 
through tlie auuual reports of the Mines Department and the records kep)t in the 
Custom House, Dungeness. 
“ The following is a Tabulated Statement of the Yield of Tin from the 
Kangaroo Hills District, so far as can be obtained. This table includes the yield from 
the recently discovered alluvial field in Dingo Creek, distant about 30 miles from 
Kangaroo Hills: — 
Tear. 
Yield of Black Tin. 
Value. 
Tons 
cwt. 
£ 
1885 
100 
0 
5,556 
1886 
121 
0 
6,534, 
1887 
83 
6 
1888 
117 
16 
1889 
137 
0 
1800 
38 
0 
Autliorit 3 '. 
Mineral WealiJi of Queensland. 
Annual Report, I^fines Department, 1886. 
Customs Records, Diuigcness. 
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“Bismuth. — Pragments of carbonate of bismuth have been discovered in the 
uvia,l gravels in the neighbourhood of Kangaroo Hills. Eecently bismuth has been 
met with in one of' the creeks draining into Halifax Bay. 
‘ Iron . — Ores of iron are very plentiftil throughout the district. 
‘ lu one of the branches of Biscuit Creek, about 9 miles down the river below 
angaroo Hills Station, there is a large lode of h;omatite in quartz country. The ore 
as a considerable disturbing effect on the magnetic needle. 
Some distance north of Donnybrook there occurs what is known as the Iron 
mmtain. This rises to an altitude by aneroid of 200 feet above the level of the camp 
at Donnybrook. 
The Iron Mountain in reality occupies one end of the cap of a lode which can 
G traced for some distance. 
In places there is a kind of quartzose gangue. At one spot huge blocks of 
asmatite and limonite stand out in bold relief upon the back of the lode. 
The general course of this lode is north-west and south-east. Numerous 
vein ets branch off at right angles to the strike. At one place merely small bunches 
an veinlets of hromatite occur in the gangue, in addition to small quantities of the 
ue and green carbonates of copper. 
east Kear the ‘ Mountain ’ the lode or mass presents a steep escarpment to the 
On the face green and blue carbonates of copper form botryoidal and stalactitic 
sses m a cavern about 9 feet in height, which runs fora few feet westwards. 
Along the whole course of the lode a little surface-work has been done, and 
show that the general character of the ore is the same throughout its 
0 e length. The linear persistence of this lode is most marked.” 
“ Silver-Lead. 
“A promising 
Kangaroo Hill Station 
Kunning Eiver. 
deposit occurs about 25 miles distant southwards from 
at a place known as Donnybrook, on the waters of the 
The discovery is said to have been made by Mr. E. Moss, one of the present 
owneis, when out on a prospecting trip in the year 1871, but until the year 1890 he 
ook no steps to work the deposit. 
