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Battery Returns from Quartz-mines in the Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast Mining Districts for the Year ended the 31st December, 1905.

Returns from Quartz-mines in the Southern Mining District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1905.

Statement of Value of Gold won from Quartz crushed for all Districts for the Years ended the 31st December, 1905 and 1904.

Name and Locality of Mine. Quartz crushed. Yield of Gold. .pproximate Values. Collingwood District— Goloen Blocks, Taitapu Hidden Treasure, Onakaka Westport District— Red Queen, Mokihinui Britannia, Waimangaroa Lyell District— Alpine Extended, Lyell Boatman's D strict— Welcome, Capleston Buller United, Italian Gully Kirwan's Reward, Victoria Range Reefton District — Wealth of Nations, Crushington Golden Fleece, Murray Creek Progress, Devil's Creek Keep-it-Dark, Crushington New Inkerman, Rainy Creek* .. New Inkerman, Rainy Creekf New Scotia, Merrijigs .. Inglewood Victoria, Murray Creek B g River, Big River Greymouth District - Taffy, Upper Blackball Garden Gully, Paparoa Ranges} Tons. 2,387 118 889 444 50 7,584 11,970 1.3,935 60,000 12,730 3,330 564 250 1,730 920 Oz. dwt. gr. 2,796 7 0 41 11 0 134 17 1 848 16 7 54 6 0 53 0 0 14 0 0 1,683 18 6 4,702 0 2 6,541 10 0 24,879 13 15 5,021 2 21 722 15 1 11 17 12 46 15 0 1,654 19 2 879 2 6 £ s. d. 11,108 3 6 103 16 4 528 5 3 3,348 13 5 207 8 0 212 0 0 55 6 0 6,699 13 11 19,053 15 9 26,507 12 9 96,851 8 6 19,351 15 1 2,811 8 0 33 16 10 170 3 0 5,681 8 6 3,514 8 3 30 18 7 1 1 0 125 5 8 3 3 0 Totals .. 116,901 50,118 10 18 196,367 11 9 * When worked by the New Inkerman Minns (Limited), lealand (Limited). t Clean up of the Old Croesus Batte: t After being ti .ken over by the Consol :dated Qoldflelds of New py.

Name and Locality of Mine. l≤1 .sfe-s m Produce of Amalgam. ■§ . "So Melted Gold. Value. CO ■ I! Gold from Tailings. Tailings treated by Quantity. Value. Premier Sunrise (New Zealand), Macetown iDdian Glenrook (Wynaad), Mace town E. Balch, Macetown W. H. Anderson and party, Macetown D. McKay and party, MaceTons. 310 Oz. dwt.gr. 492 0 0 Oz. dwt. gr. 164 0 9 £ a. a. 632 0 0 Tons. Oz.dwt. gr. £ s. a. 205 79 465 0 0 47 7 0 254 1 2 43 16 3 931 3 9 166 4 5 62 112 0 0 45 17 14 178 15 0 town Shotover, Skipper's Morning Star, Preservation Inlet Star of the East (Lawrence Bros.), Bannockburn Go-bye (J. B. Holliday), Bannockburn Sundries Barewood, Barewood Last Chance (T.Park & Co.), Canada Reefs Johnston and Smith (Canada Reefs) Scheelite (Macrae's) .. 947 50 50 5.797 2,612 1,967 1,086 0 0 7,804 4 0 2,721 15 0 401 11 5 29 12 0 7 17 6 1,486 3 16 1,023 17 12 876 0 0 1,498 15 2 107 17 0 28 13 0 5,801 11 3 3,840 0 0 3,091 11 0 226 40 411 45 6 17 7 4 7 116 16 6 58 7 15 169 0 0 23 4 2 284 12 4 169 9 7 Cyanide. Battery clean-up Treated in N.S.Wales 123 34 13 0 135 2 0 57j Totals '.. I 12,259' I 12,728 6 0 4,367 9 19 16,411 12 7 677 227 14 21 646 6 1

Mining District. Year emled the 31st December, 1905. Year ended the 31st December, 1904. Hauraki Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast ... Otago and Southland... 1,023,027 196,368 17,058 £ 893,635 224,626 15,998 Totals ... 1,236,453 1,134,259