QUEENSLAND.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 155, 23 February 1872, Page 6

QUEENSLAND.

Writing of the' mining wealth of; Queensland, a contemporary says :-rThat c ariqus pitch} -looking;iron ochre,., from the banks of'tbe Burdekin River; (of poor- Leichardt) at the Ravens wood s 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 speckr of it visible in. the bituminous looking lumps which' do duty for quartz at this place. Itr need* hardly be said that the ore %, much richer even than, the foregoing yield would imply, as the waste of gold with the ordinary machine is; with eucb a matrix, enormous. Gym pie needs no praise, her steady yield of 4 ounces, to the ton for nearly 40,000 crushed, between 1868 and 1871, speaks for itself. The copper lodes of Kiikiarn and Mount Perry, the Kroombit, and other affluents of the Dawson River, show first rate prospects, the width of the lode and show of" specimens reminding one of the early Burra Biirra days. The Peak Downs mine alone is turning put a princely yield annually.