637 
Notwithstanding the richness of the alluvial deposits of Stanthorpe, no payable 
tin lode has yet been found on the Queensland side of the border. 
The Stanthorpe Tin Field has never been geologically mapped in detail, but the 
exhaustive Report of Mr. T. W. Edgeworth David on the Vegetable Creek Tin Mining 
District of New South Wales throws considerable liglit on the subject. Mr. David 
classifies the stanniferous deposits as follows : — 
Deposits of Tin Ore. 
Alluvial Stream Works. Plutonic Veins. 
1 
1 
Recent and Pleistocene 
1 
Tertiary 
“ Shallow Leads.” 
“Deep Leads,” 
mostly capped by lava. 
Yield of Stajithoepe Tin Field. 
Tear. 
How Figures Obtained. 
Tons of Stream Tin 
Ore raised. 
Value 
£ 
1872 
' 
1,407 
109,816 
1873 
8,938 
606,184 
1874 
5,702 
358,550 
1875 
-Prom Ann. Rep. Dep. Mines for 1885 ... - 
4,475 
237,879 
1876 
4,315 
187,201 
1877 
3,335 
133,432 
1878 
2,849 
88,366 
_ 
a879 
Total in Queensland 2,877 tons, value 
2 
£120,391 ; less HerbertonlSlitons, volue 
d) . 
02 CD 
£5,260 
2,745i 
115,131 
•ViS 
1.''80 
Total in Q.neensland 2,847 tons, value 
^ s' 
£142,977 ; less Herberton 193i tons, value 
L. CO 
g o 
£7,740 
2,653i 
135,237 
!U o 
1881 
Total in Queensland 3,456 tons, value 
£193,699; less Herberton ],183t tons, 
■fv- 
<D w 
' 
value £47,340 
2,272i 
146,359 
To 
1882 
Total in Queensland 4,261 tons, value 
Mi 
£269,904; less Herberton 1,810 tons. 
00 
value £72,400 
2,451 
197,504 
1883 
817 
40,233 
1884 
934 
41,096 
1885 
503 
25,150 
1886 
430 
24,910 
1887 
356 
22,072 
1888 
414 
26,910 
1889 
310t 
. 16,146 
1890 
277 
14,404 
Totals ... 
45,185 
2,526,610 
