THE TASMANIAN SILVER FIELDS.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, December 8. Mr James Frater, mining agent, has returned from a visit to the Zeehan and Dundas silverfields, Tasmania. Ho says a tremendous area is pegged out waiting for an improved market. The Silver Queen mine sent away nearly a thousand tone of ore, and obtained a return of about £23,000. Other mines have far bigger lodes, but all require sinking and pumping machinery. “Very little is doing in the way of speculation. It will be March or April before the smelters are ready, In the meantime there
is little inducement to miners to go there. Mr Frater believes there is a good market New Zealand produce shipped direct to Macquarrie Harbour.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1032, 11 December 1891, Page 21
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119THE TASMANIAN SILVER FIELDS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1032, 11 December 1891, Page 21
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