Annual Report of the Department of Mines

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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Department of Mines: New South Wales, for the Year 1877I am indebted to the Honorable Geoffrey Eagar, the Under Secretary for Finance and Trade, for the information as to the quantity and value of gold exported. The value of the gold exported in 1877 slighty exceeds that of 1876.The following table contains a statement of the results obtained from the treatment of certain parcels of wash-dirt from some of our alluvial mines during 1877, compared with the results similarly obtained in 1876. Though there are no returns from some of the districts, the aggregate quantity included in the returns for 1877 slightly exceeds that for 1876, but it is evident that only a very small portion of the earth treated is included in these returns. It is most difficult to induce the miners to furnish such information, and I am convinced that no blame in this respect rests upon the officers of the department.Unfortunately the results supplied furnish no guide in forming an estimate of the average yield per ton of wash-dirt obtained from our alluvial mines as a whole. From the information supplied it would appear that the average yield in 1877 is considerably less than in 1876, which is possibly due to some extent to the scarcity of water at Parkes and Gulgong, where of late the highest averages have been obtained.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.