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SELLHEIM SILVEK FIELD. 
The majority of the argentiferous galena lodes of the Sellheim ™ 
altered dolerite rock* which appears to have intruded among ° 
denuded surfaces of a series of stratified rocks. A few of the lodes hav 
to a limited extent in the latter. The stratified rocks m question are 
Gordon Gully, which faUs into the left bank of the Sellheim E^ver, «outh of Euka 
Innda township. They have a general dip to S.W. at angles ™ f 
30°, and consist of bluish-grey shales and fine-grained sandston^, ‘ 
impressions of fossils, among which I could detect Spinfem, ProductuB, 
ALaopeoteu, and Stenopora. Although the fossils obtained were 
I have little hesitation in classing the strata in which they occur with y p 
This series appears to be faulted on the east against granite and ^ ^ 
the Star Beds already described. It is in this neighbourhood that the Chonetes, &c., 
beds, referred to by Daintree and McCoy, occur. ...rineinal 
The field is minutely described in a Eeport by the Writer.f ^ 
lines of lode are the Pyramid, Bonnie Dundee General 
of them over half-a-mile in length. No smelting works have ^ 
considering the expense of carriage of the ore to Bowen, it speaks well for the held 
that it has lived so long. „Tfiiiite or 
Bismuth mines {see Chapter II.) occur in the neighbourhood, but in granite 
syenite country. 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
Yield or Sellheim Silvbb Mines. 
Ore Exported. 
Tons. 
... 20 
... 120 
... 278 
... 259 
... 207 
... 430 
... 132 
Value. 
£ 
400 
2,400 
5,165 
5,150 
4,215 
8,061 
2,462 
* Totals ... ...1,446 
» TLe return of silver tor 1890 cannot be given, as the Commissioner's 
bismuth ore as 63 tons 11 cwt., valued at £1,700 Os. Od. 
27,853 
Report onl}' gives the total of silver and 
J. 
♦ See Mr. Clarke’s Petrographical Notes. t,. ^ . 
t Report on the Sellheim Silver Mines and Surrounding District. 
Brisbane : by Authority : 1889. 
