13 
In the following table, the great hulk of the ore has been raised from King’s 
Mine. The other mines are specified where the information is given in the Annual 
Keports of the Department of Mines. 
Yield or Eavbkswood Silvee Field. 
Year. 
Mine. 
1880 
43 Mount Eight 
44 
isk 
One-Mile (King’s ?) 
King’s 
Eoberts and Others 
1882 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
King’s 
Totals . . . 
Tons ef Ore. 
Raised, Exported, or 
Dressed. 
Value. 
121 
Exported 
f .1. d. 
371 5 0 
21 
86 1 3 
108 
3,152 10 0 
357 
14,040 0 0 
20 
1,400 0 0 
2001 
6,762 0 0 
381 
12,072 0 0 
895 
20,560 0 0 
905 
22,937 0 0 
928 
Dressed 
23,114 0 0 
1,142 
Eaised 
25,520 0 0 
11 
140 0 0 
27^1 
Eaised 
6,41117 6 
5,231i 
136,566 13 9 
SELLHEIM BISMUTH MINES. 
Three miles east of the towmship of Eiikalunda, on the north side of the Mount 
Wyatt and Bowen road, is the Daisy Bismuth Mine. The cap is traceable for one chain 
E. 20° N. to a shaft 12 feet deep. In the shaft the lode is at least 3 feet 4 inches 
wide, for neither hanging nor foot wall is seen. It has an 8-inch vein of iron and 
copper ore with greenish-yellow imperfect prismatic crystals of bismuth ore. The 
I’cin underlies at a high angle to S. 20° E. Jtforizontal veins of ore go into both sides 
of the shaft. The matrix of the ore is mainly rod iron oxide with a considerable 
proportion of “ tile ore,” or ferruginous red oxide of copper. It contains some 
green and blue carbonate of copper, sometimes in crystals, and a considerable quantity 
of the bismuth ore already mentioned. The greenish-yellow crystals yield bismuth, 
copper, and iron, the bismuth and copper being in the condition of carbonates. It is 
probable that the ore results from the transmutation of witticheriite or cupreous 
sulphate of bismuth, which will probably take its place (mixed with iron and copper 
Pyrites) below the water level. It may be mentioned that wuttichenite is steel-grey to 
white in colour, has a black streak, tarnishes pale lead-grey, and contains about 48 per 
cent, of bismuth and about 33 per cent, of copper. A sample of the greenish-yellow 
bismuth ore freed from the matrix gave me on analysis 33'76 per cent, of bismuth. 
A hole just being sunk 100 yards to E. 20° K. shows ore 2 feet 8 inches in width, 
mostly iron, manganese, and copper oxides, with some green copper carbonate, and some 
lumps of yellow bismuth ochre. Another pothole, one chain further along the cap, 
shows specks of galena, and heavy iron, copper, and manganese oxides. It was opened 
some years ago by prospectors for silver. The country-rock is syenite. 
Half-a-mile east of the Daisy is the Eukalunda Bismuth Mine. It commences 
at the south-west end with a very large blow (say 12 feet wide) of red ironstone, with 
some manganese oxide, quartz, and streaks and spots of greenish-yellow bismuth ore. 
A hole 12 feet deep shows it to underlie at a high angle to the south-east. A shaft 
20 feet deep about 40 feet to the north-east show's the same underlie, but does not prove 
the width of the lode. The shaft shows ferruginous quartz with some bismuth ochre. 
