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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1025, 8 November 1871, Page 2

Writing of the mining wealth of Que.ens r land, a contemporary says: — That curiouß pitchy-looking iron ochre, from the banks of the Burdekin River f of poor Leichardt) at the Ravenswood diggings, is turning out wonderfully. 250 tons of it from the "Black Jack""Reef yielded 1975 ounces of gold, and yet there is not a speck of it visible in the bituminouslooking lumps which do duty for quar.'z at this place. It need hardly be said thajb the ore is much richer even than the foregoing yield would impy. as the waste of gold by the ordinary machine is, with such a matrix, enormous. ' Gympie' needs no praise ; her steady average of 4oa to the ton for nearly 40,000 tons, crushed between 1868 and 1871, speaks for itself. The copper lodes of Kilkiran and Mount Perry, the Kroombit, and other affluents of the Dawson River, show first-rate prospects, the width of the lode aud show of specimens reminding one of the early Burra Burra days. The Peak Downs mine .ilono is turning out a priuccly yield annually.