86 
“ So far as I am able to gather from information supplied to me, about 1,139 
tons of ore and ‘ crude antimony’ have been sold from the mine. Of this about 250 
tons of ore, won by the original company and by Mr. Ahrcnfeldt, fetched a little over 
£10 per ton. The Wide Bay Antimony and Smelting Company and the Neerdie 
Antimony and Smelting Company sold 890 tons of ore and ‘ crude antimony,’ at 
prices varying from £8 ISs. jjer ton to £17 10s. per ton. 
“The New South Wales returns for the ten years 1872 to 1881, show that in 
that colony 1,072 tons of antimony (metal, ore, and regulus; the proportions of each 
are not given) sold for £28,616, or an average of £26 13s. 9d. per ton. At the present 
time the price of antimony is higher than it has been for a long time. Quotations in 
the American Mining Journal are: — 
2Gtli July, 1889 — Star regulus £61 to £63 per ton. 
Crude antimony 31 „ 33 „ 
50 per cent, ore 18 „ 20 „ 
“ The ore from the mine is of a good quality and can be ‘picked’ up to between 
50 per cent, and 60 per cent. At the present prices it should pay to work if there 
is as good ore in the bottom level as there was in the upper ones. 
“ Tip to the present work has been carried on on one lode only, and on but one 
‘ shoot ’ in that lode. There has not been sufficient prospecting for fresh ‘ shoots,’ nor 
have the other lodes that are known to exist been sufficiently tried.” 
J. 
