Ill 
Yield op Rockhampton Gold Fields (Exclusive of Mount Morgan). 
Year. 
Stone Crushed. 
Yield therefrom. 
1866 
Tons. 
Oz. 
1867 "■ 
1868 "■ 
7 ', 564 
8’982 
Estimated amount prior to 1877 
1877 
1878 
1879 
1880 
1881 
1882 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
Total 
Alluvial Gold. 
Oz. 
... 
1,120 
733 
1,092 
2,016 
49’686 
17,645 
85,205 
Total ... 
100 
(Not estimated) 
(Not estimated) 
Total. 
Oz. 
52,000 
33,739 
25,505 
111,244 
88,756 
200,000 
2,350 
2,071 
707 
1,353 
2,132 
2,107 
5,591 
# 
+ 
j 
1,600 
say, 1,600 
^ 2,130 
6,131 
227,773 
♦ “ Tir« V 
^ ork at a standstill, except as regards Mount Morgan.” Warden, in Annual "Report, Department of Mines. 
+ ‘Estimate, altlioiigR several mines crusted. 
^ ^ estimate, althougt “ great activity prevailed.” 
YATTON GOLD FIELD. 
by I’eeently opened goldfield of Tatton is in a dioritic country-rock, intersected 
follow ff silicated fclsite. Some of the auriferous reefs, such as the St. Catherine, 
‘^ondif Iws of such deposits, hut the majority are peculiar as regards the 
Posed ^ 'I'lder which tlie gold is found. The gangue-stuff, which is generally com- 
oarbo ° lumps of diorite is veined with calcite and decomposed concretionary 
deeom*^ ® lime, and occasional aggregations of carbonate of iron (siderite) and 
orthoclase felspar are met with. "Some of tlie stone, composed of mixed 
flaby ^oddish ferruginous carbonate of lime, shows gold vei'y freely. The gold is 
tons c ' 1 Soldleaf. The reefs are as yet too undeveloped to say much abuut. 136 
the QqJq* in 1877 gave 74 oz. of gold, but these figures give no idea of the yield of 
sta: 
uipers. 
as the richest parts of many of the reefs probably never passed through the 
the pV"i' ^ good deal of alluvial gold had been taken from Vatton seven years before 
Idea field. The reefs are not yet sufficiently developed to give a true 
loir Value, as they are mostly of a character of which miners have had little 
oxperii 
once. 
^ GOOROOMJAM MGGINGS. 
P 
Sources is situated on that portion of the Bunya Kange which divides the 
lo two ^^’l^l’une Eiver from those o^ IP® Burnett. The diggings are confined 
about- descend from either side of the range. Monarrumbi Creek is worked 
I'lie area in length, and the Dry Grully for even a less distance tlmn this. 
®iued Upon consists entirely of greenstone, with the exception of the lower 
