Tin Deposits of the World: With a ...

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By Sydney Fawns

Published 1907
The Mining journal

Tin ores

304 pages

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THE COMMON FORMS OF STANNIFEROUS	1
cassiterite, Specific gravity, Oruro Department
DESCRIPTION OF TIN DEPOSITS	9
stockworks, Cornwall, country rock
ALLUVIAL TIN DEPOSITS OF THE MALAY	21
Perak, monazite, kaolin
ALLUVIAL TIN DEPOSITS OF BANCA	38
coolies, Siak river, sluice box
TIN LODE DEPOSITS IN THE MALAY	65
Pahang, schists, tourmaline
TIN DEPOSITS OF NEW SOUTH WALES	77
Emmaville, Inverell, Elsmore

TIN DEPOSITS OF QUEENSLAND	92
Herberton, Stanthorpe, Irvinebank
TIN DEPOSITS OF TASMANIA	99
porphyritic, Ringarooma River, Silurian
TIN DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA	115
Oruro, Huanuni, porphyry
TIN DEPOSITS OF CORNWALL	138
Camborne, greenstone, copper
TIN DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NIGERIA	154
Enkeldoorn, Lualaba River, tantalite
TIN DEPOSITS OF CENTRAL EUROPE	166

and Lakilleder Brittany FranceTin Deposits at Campaglia Italy	175
wolframite, Buck Creek, limestone
General Description of Geological FeaturesQueen LodeWhite	184
Mount Bischoff, iron pyrites, Waratah
THE DOLCOATH TIN MINE	194
Carn Brea, Californian Stamp, Dolcoath Mine
Cornwall of handling the Crushed OreFrue VannersWilfley Con	204
wolframite, ball mill, calcined
DREDGING FOR	223
centrifugal pump, suction dredge, sluice box
ParryCyanide AssayGerman Assay MethodWet Assay for	233
ferric chloride, antimony, oxide
STATISTICS OF TIN PRODUCTION	251
FEDERATED MALAY, Pikuls, Tupiza
TIN SMELTING	269
smelting, kilogrammes, REVERBERATORY FURNACE
BIBLIOGRAPHY	296
LONDON WALL, Calciner, SMELTING

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Taiping - Page 27
Twenty years ago the Kinta District was almost unknown, and Taiping and Kuala Lumpur were the great tin centres, but now it is the most important ...
more pages: 23 30 31

Oruro - Page 126
There is no water at Oruro available for floor ; the ores are carted * All the tin lodes in these hills were at the southern end ; in the eastern ...
more pages: 123 127 128 132 259

Huanuni - Page 125
In each of the watercourses between Huanuni and Negro Pabellon wtre found one or two people washing stream-tin. The principal venero was at Japo. ...
more pages: 123 124 127

Bundi - Page 69
There are no other charges, whilst timber and water rights are covered by the concession. A microscopic examination of the granite rock at Bundi.
more pages: 70 71 73

Sain Alto - Page 174
The following statistics were compiled from the bills of sale of metallic tin purchased in Sain Alto during three years, which documents were ...
more pages: 175 303

Colquiri - Page 126
Twenty miles north of Colquiri is the Tres Cruces, a large group of mountains 20000 feet high.* The only tin lode worked was Sayaquiri. ...
more pages: 125 134

Lahat - Page 76
The ore carries about 20 per cent. of tin. In Kinta these deposits have not lived down ; at Lahat 35 feet has been sunk with good results.
more pages: 28

Ipoh - Page 27
Gopeng, Batu Gajah, Tronoh, Cacha, Lalang, Papan, Lahat, Chongkat Pari, and Ipoh, the last being the commercial centre of the district ; in fact, ...
more pages: 28

La Paz - Page 125
They are situated in the province of Inquisivi, which officially belongs to La Paz, but it is over 100 miles from that town. ...
more pages: 123 259

Kuala Lumpur - Page 27
Twenty years ago the Kinta District was almost unknown, and Taiping and Kuala Lumpur were the great tin centres, but now it is the most important ...
more pages: 22

Poopo - Page 122
They are all to the eastward of the great Bolivian platean, in which are the lakes of Titicaca and Poopo. No tin mines are known to exist in the ...

Llallagua - Page 128
The road of Llallagua runs east and west and nearly vertical. The mine was bailly worked ; the tinstoue was rir.h and of good quality, ...

Mergui - Page 48
to form the fine waterway of the Great Tenasserim River, which, flowing East and then South, bending North again, flows into the sea near Mergui. ...
more pages: 46 47

El Paso - Page 178
Quite recently veins of tin ore in granite have been discovered in the State of Texas near El Paso. The tin is said to be of high quality, ...
more pages: 177

Inverell - Page 77
Fearby, at Elsmore, near Inverell. Mr. C1eghorn, of Uralla, had sent the Messrs. Fearby to prospect the creeks of this district for gem-stones, ...
more pages: 80

Singapore - Page 274
It was decided to build works in or near Singapore, on Pulo Brani, an island lying south of Singapore Island and west of the town. ...
more pages: xii 43 286

Victoria Point - Page 51
The property is located in Lower Burma, situated near the Maliwun River, which, being navigable, offers easy access to the sea at Victoria Point, ...

Zacatecas - Page 175
The larger producers sell their metal at higher figures to actual consumers in Zacatecas and Mexico City. Therefore the production of tin ore from ...
more pages: 297

Albury - Page 89
Tin also occurs in granite country at Dora Dora, in the parish of Vantier, county of Golbourn, about 40 miles east of Albury. ...
more pages: 87

Bridgetown - Page 115
The highest point of this tableland is 900 feet above sea level, and is crossed by the main road from Bridgetown to Donnybrook. ...

Bidor - Page 34
necessary to go outside the area under consideration and look at the sections of similar shales between Bidor and Sungkai, where large masses in situ, ...

Wagga Wagga - Page 89
Tinstone also occurs, both in lodes and alluvial deposits, about twenty miles from Wagga Wagga, in the parishes of Pulletop, Burrandana, and Westby, ...

Lead, S. Dak - Page 177
situated in what is known as the Nigger Hill and Beer Gulch districts, west of Deadwood and Lead, S. Dak., and 75 miles northwest of Harney Peak. ...

Lokoja - Page 154
The tin was eventually traced to the Province of Banchi, some 600 miles to the north-east of Lokoja, the then headquarters of the Government, ...

Salamanca - Page 170
In the province of Salamanca there are, traversing the older slates, quartz lodes which contain tin ore, and in 1875 tin mines of that region afforded ...

Nerchinsk - Page 164
Tin has long been known to exist in the district of Nerchinsk (Transbaikal), chiefly in the valley of the River Onon, an affluent of the Amur, ...

Melbourne - Page 98
A powerful company, registered in Melbourne and in Queensland as the Annan River Tin Mines, No Liability, have now acquired some 400 acres of alluvial ...

Almeria - Page 170
J Tin ore has also been found in the province of Almeria.§ TIN DEPOSITS OF PORTUGAL. Tin deposits occur in the provinces of Belro, Minto, and Tras-os- ...

Georgetown - Page 98
battery that they mean to erect. t Alluvial tin assaying 72 per cent., has been discovered on the Robertson River, about 40 miles south of Georgetown. ...

Bangkok - Page 53
Smelted in an equally primitive fashion, the ingots of tin are purchased by Chinese merchants at Pak Hinbun, and sent off to Bangkok. ...

Broken Hill - Page 89
In the far western portion of the Colony, at Euriowie and Poolamacca, about fifty miles to the north of Broken Hill, tin-ore occurs under conditions ...

Cochabamba - Page 128
These mines belong to the department of Cochabamba, their outlet being by Oruro. LA PAZ. — The mines in the La Paz district are not of great ...

San Diego - Page 178
The old Temiscal Tin Aline near San Diego, in the southern end of California, is now being operated under lease, and the lessees report a saving of 2 ...

Arica - Page 132
enabled many people to start work ; formerly all the traffic was carried on by mules, donkeys, and llamas from Oruro to the port of Arica in Peru. ...

Sydney - Page 77
Fearby, supposing to be tinstone, sent to Sydney to be assayed for tin. The result of the assay proved that this black mineral was oxide of tin, and, ...

Mexico City - Page 175
The larger producers sell their metal at higher figures to actual consumers in Zacatecas and Mexico City. Therefore the production of tin ore from ...

Rangoon - Page 51
Two gangs of Indian coolies, Pathaus and Keringues, were engaged, without adequate selection, by a labour agent in Rangoon, the rate of wages being 25 ...

Teocaltiche - Page viii
by Flett & Clough — Ireland, by Louis — Tin Deposits of Durango and Teocaltiche — Geology of the Potrillos District — Mining at Sain Alto, ...

Chicago - Page 177
Although there has been no appreciable development of the Harney Peak properties, the Tinton Tin Company, controlled by Chicago interests, ...

Hong Kong - Page 164
The whole of the tin is shipped to Hong Kong in half slabs measuring 22 inches in length by 9 to 10 inches in breadth and f to 1 inch in thickness. ...

Gaffney, SC - Page 176
The most promising deposit on the belt is at the Ross mine, near Gaffney, SC, from which 34471 pounds of the ore were shipped in 1903 ; 75000 pounds ...

Warrington - Page 241
Fletcher, Russell & Co. of Warrington. The ends of the tube should project about 3 inches from each end of the furnace, and should be closed with ...

Santa Barbara - Page 129
Thence to Quechisla, 4 leagues from Santa Barbara, carts can travel ; but between the latter two places there is only a mule track, ...
more pages: 128

Berlin - Page 243
Convert the stannic sulphide to oxide by ignition in a small weighed Berlin crucible and weigh as stannic oxide. ...
more pages: 245

Cape Town - Page 159
They are 12J miles from Cape Town and cover an area of 5037 miles. The country rock consists of granite which belongs to Cape system. ...

Dublin - Page 58
A good example of working this form of deposit is to be found on the property of the Leh Chin Mining Company, Limited, of Dublin, at Changkat Pari, ...

Madras - Page 277
The stamps are also looked after by Chinese coolies, whilst the bnddles and Frue vanners are tended by Kling or Madras coast coolies. ...

Paris - Page 176
Similar occurrences are reported at Paris and Hebron. In Massachusetts a few crystals of cassiterite have been found with albite and tourmaline at ...

York - Page 180
This Settlement is 20 miles north-east of York, and 4 miles from Lopp Lagoon, an inlet from the Arctic Ocean. Buck Creek is a small stream, ...

Tapah - Page 36
1200 1000 1000 2000 2. c Tronoh - , Papan - ... , Salak - - - , Tapah - - 4Kumunting - - - () Kota - - Ah Phin Bros. ...

Derby - Page 299
Report on the Deep head or infra basaltic stanniferous gravels of the Ringarrooma Valley near Derby. Report on the Anchor Tin Mine and other mines of ...

London - Page 299
Treatise on Ore Deposits : Macmillan & Co., London, 1896. Description of both alluvial and lode deposits of tin in various parts of the world, ...
more pages: 258

Kampar - Page 302
Kampar (Malay), 27. Kangaroo Hills (Queensland), 96, 97. Kasonso, 162. Kemaman (Malay), 69. Kinta (Malay), 26-30. Korea, Deposits of, 164.