Notes on the occurrence of tungsten ores in New South Wales with a register of localities

Abstract

Reviewing our knowledge of the local occurrences, it must be admitted that no payable deposits have yet been discovered, notwithstanding the stir caused by the sudden large advance in values of tungsten ores about the year 1890, although numerous fresh occurrences have been noted, and previously known ones more or less superficially explored. Judging from the known deposits of tungsten ores in this Colony, and from the extremely limited outputs recorded in the statistical returns of countries producing them, notwithstanding the constant demand, it would appear that the ores of this metal are sparsely distributed in nature. The chief supplies appear to be drawn from Cornwall (England), Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Saxony. Texas and Northern Mexico are reported this year to be offering unusually large quantities from recently-opened mines.