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TENNINGERING, BOOLBOONDA, MOLANGtTL, AND NORMANBY GOLD FIELDS. 
The Ecid’s Creek reefs are about fiye miles south-south- west of Mount Pony, 
on Branch Creek, a tributary of Eeid’s Creek. These reefs, Mr. Israel Bennett’ 
Inspector of Mines, informs me, have turned out, up to 1886 (I gather from the 
Annual Eeports of the Department that they hare only been worked since 1881), 400 
tons of stone, valued at £15 per ton, £6,000, and 1,200 oz. of gold, valued at £3 10s. 
per oz., £4,200 ; total, £10,200. At a depth the lodes yield a mundic consisting 
chiefly of arsenical iron pyrites, but containing also iron pyrites and zinc-blende, with 
hero and there blocks of galena. 
None of the other smaller fields in the Burnett District have ever attained to 
much importance, and it would be impossible to estimate their yield with any degree of 
accuracy. They are grouped together in the official returns, sometimes under one 
heading and sometimes under another. The little field which produced all the gold in 
one year’s return was perhaps abandoned the next, so that the gold-mines of the whole 
Burnett District have to be regarded as one group. Probably even thus the returns are 
unsatisfactory. For instance, Mr. Bands in his Eeport, published in 1885, gives the 
output for 1884 of the Eeid’s Creek mines alone as 688 oz. of gold from 830 tons of 
stone, while the output of the whole district for the year is given in the Annual Eeport 
of the Department of Mines as 431 oz. from 603 tons. 
Yield or TEUNiirsEEiifa awd otheb Small Goldfields in Bueneit Distkiot. 
Year. 
Stoue Cmslied. 
Gold tlierelrom. 
Total Gold. 
Tons. 
1880 
1881 
1,809 
1,254 
63 
1,254 
1882 
889 
622 
622 
1883 
355 
376 
376 
1884 
603 
431 
431 
1885 
127 
92 
92 
188G 
1,066 
90 
90 
1887 
1,398 
671 
671 
1888 
2,428 
1,553 
1,553 
1889 
2,085 
1,246 
1,246 
1890 
2,341 
1,901 
1,901 
Total 
8,299 
JIMNA AND GOOROOMJAM GOLD FIELDS. 
Jimna G-old Field has been worked off and on for more than twenty years, but has 
not been highly productive, except at first, for alluvial gold. Its output, when reported, 
has generally been massed in the annual returns with those of “ Other Small Fields.” 
The rocks at the Jimna Diggings are principally granite, slate, .and sandstone,^ with 
comparatively litllc quartz. The alluvial drift of the only two creeks that have been 
worked Jimna and Sandy Creeks. — rests sometimes on decomposed granite and some- 
limes on sandstone or slate. The workings have extended four or five miles down each 
of these creeks. Mortimore’s reef, on Jimna Creek, contains fine gold. It is interesting 
as having been the first auriferous reef observed in the colonies traversing granite 
country. 
J. 
