mt.morgan news, page-2

Mount Morgan, a mountain of iron mixed with gold, near the coast of Queensland, is said to be the richest gold mine of the world, and about the town of Gympie, some distance off, there is so much gold in the earth that the boys sometimes find the yellow grains in the gutters after a rain. There are more than two thousand gold mines in Queensland alone, and also rich deposits of tin, iron, cop-per, and lead. The tin is found mixed with the sand of the streams, the grains looking very like the iron filings of a machine shop or smithy.