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NEERDIR ANTIMONY MINE. 
The history of this mine, which apparently is rich in sulphide of antimony, has 
®6n Varied by periods of prosperity and depression according to the rise or fall in the 
price of the metal. The total amount of ore produced from 1873 to 1886 was 930 tons, 
gained at £11,769. The statistics, however, give the amount of ore raised except in 
® year 1881, when only the amount shipped is given. - 
Yield of Neebdie Antimony Mine. 
Tear. 
Tons of Ore. 
Value. 
£ 
1873 
15 
157 
1874 
207 
2,141 
1875 
60 
360 
1876 
18 
216 
1877 
101 
606 
1878 
27 
405 
1879 
4 
40 
1880 
Nil 
1881 
163 
1,965 
1882 
... (No return) 
.. 
1883 
127 
2,550 
1884 
198 
2,969 
1885 
... (No return) 
.. 
1886 
110 
400 
Totals 
1,030 
£11,809 
th T‘ following description of the mine is taken from a Report by Mr. Rands on 
® Tiaro District,* which may bo referred to for further details. 
“ The mine is situated about twelve miles w'est of Gunalda Railway Station, in 
® ^y^pie Shales, south of the Coal Measures. The lodes are in the same series of 
■wh' T Exhibition, Enterprise, and Veteran Reefs — the thick masses of shales 
ich overlie the auriferous beds of Gympie. 
' The Neerdie Antimony Mine has been worked, on and off, since the year 1873. 
® Jxeerdie Antimony Company — the original owners — worked it from 1873 to 1876 ; 
the' 
'7 did not make it 
pay. 
Then a man named Ahrenfeldt leased it on tribute from 
H p 1878, but did very little with it. In 1881 it was leased on tribute to Mr. 
Th' managing director of the Wide Bay Antimony and Smelting Company. 
company, I am informed, did well by sending ore homo direct, even at its low 
it h^ They then jiut up furnaces and flues, and liquated the ore, sending 
pro * crude antimony,’ which is merely the sulphide of antimony obtained by a 
liquation ; the portion that would not liquate was oxidised and caught in the 
They did not, however, obtain so high a price for the ‘ crude antimony’ as they 
ag |.g Selling for the ore ; and this, together with a lawsuit with the original company, 
^ighe^f liquated sulphide was smelted antimony or not — they having to pay a 
‘'il’ute for smelted antimony — drove tho company into liquidation in 1883. The 
and^S^^^ ll^en idle until 1886, when it was sold on conditions to the Keerdie Antimony 
year Company. It was worked by this company until the early part of this 
and r a large quantity of good ore, but the expenses of the furnaces 
price of antimony at the time, caused them also to go into 
Ih e mine being thrown on the hands of the original owners again. 
1’^ Measures, Neerdie Antimony Mine, and Teebar and Culgoa Copper Lodes. Brisbane : 
