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does run from the Wongan Hills. South, by York, along the Great Southern 
Railway to Kendinup, there is not the least doubt but the gold will be associated 
with pyrites as in the Darling Range. 
THE INTERIOR. 
As far as prospectors have travelled inland along the broken lake country 
they have found gold often in very rich deposits, but have, up to the present, been 
prevented from working them owing to the want of water; but as wells are sunk 
on the existing fields the workings extend gradually further Eastward, and there is 
very little doubt that this class of country will extend in belts to the South 
Australian boundary. 
RETURN OF THE GOLD EXPORT FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS. 
Year. 
Ounces. 
Value. 
At per 07 .. 
£ 
£ s. d. 
1880 
1,207 
1887 
4,873 
19,492 
4 0 0 
1888 
3,493 
13,098 
3 15 0 
1889 
15,492* 
58,871 
3 16 0 
1890 
22,800 
8(5,664 
3 10 0 
1891 
30,311 
115,182 
3 10 0 
1892 
59,548 
220,283 
3 10 0 
1893 
110,891 
421,385 
3 16 0 
Total ... 
247,4141 
952,182 
This return is the amount declared at the Customs, and is far below the 
actual export. 
OTHER MINERAL DEPOSITS. 
COPPER AND LEAD MINES OF THE VICTORIA DISTRICT. 
In this district the copper and lead occur associated together in the same 
lodes, with, sometimes blende, ferruginous graphite, barytes, and quartz. 
The lodes, which have a course more or less North and South, make their 
appearance here and there, where the overlying Mesozoic rocks have been removed, 
in a raised belt of country, about 60 miles long, stretching from the Geraldine 
Mine, on the Murchison River, in the North, almost to Geraldton, in the South. 
They consist of very large and rich deposits of lead and copper, which were suc¬ 
cessfully worked for many years ; but owing to the great fall in the price of these 
metals, and the very small percentage of silver contained in the lead ore. work has 
been almost entirely suspended, and at present only sufficient ore is raised to 
supply ballast to the wool ships. 
The lead is found in the form of carbonate ( cenmite ) and sulphide (galena) of 
great purity, and the lodes, which are of immense width, contain so little gangue 
mixed with the ore that the galena can be dressed, with very little labour, up to 
83 or 84- per cent. 
The copper ores are also very rich, consisting near the surface of blue and 
green carbonates (avurite and malachite), with ferruginous oxides and a certain 
amount of native copper, whilst below the water level the lodes are almost entirely 
composed of sulphides (copper pyrites, copper glance , and covellite) ; these might 
