The price of a “miner’s right” is 10_s._ per year, which authorises the holder to mine on Crown lands throughout the colony outside of a native district; and 20_s._, which authorises him to mine on native lands and Crown lands, or such other sum as shall not be less than the sum which the Governor may have agreed to pay to the owners of the land as consideration for the right to mine thereon. Consolidated miners’ rights are issued at the rate of a single miner’s right (10_s._), multiplied by the number of miners’ rights which the consolidated right is to represent. Business licences, to be in force for twelve or six months, are issued on payment in advance of £3 for a yearly, and £1 10_s._ for a half-yearly licence respectively. The holder of a miner’s right is entitled to enter upon any Crown land for the purpose of prospecting and searching for gold, and to take and maintain possession of a parcel or parcels of land and work the same, subject to the regulations and provisions of the Act; he is also authorised to cut timber for removal or for the erection of a place of residence or of business, and with the Warden’s consent, to make tramways or roads for mining purposes. Claims are of four kinds--alluvial deposits and river or creek beds; quartz lodes, reefs, and leaders; sea-beach claims; prospecting claims and areas. Claims may be marked out by any person desiring the exclusive occupation of the land, but they must be continuously worked, or they are liable to forfeiture. The holder of a miner’s right can obtain a licence for the occupation of land as a licensed holding by paying the necessary expenses for surveying, &c., together with a deposit of £5 in respect of such application. INDEX A Adobie hut, 127, 128 Aërial tramways, 112 Amalgam, Retort for small quantities of, 142; squeezing, 155 Amalgamation of gold, 30 Amalgamators, 91-93 Aneroid barometer, Use of, for leveling, 160, 161 Antifriction compound, 165 Aqueous origin of ore deposits, 36-38 Assay apparatus, Simple form of, 14, 15 Assaying gold by amalgamation, 30 Areas, To lay out, 174, 175 Atherton, on native sulphide of gold, 45, 46 Atmosphere, 190 Atomic weights, 181, 182 Australian mining regulations, 194, _et seq._; New South Wales, 194; Victoria, 195; S. Australia, 195; W. Australia, 195; Queensland, 198; Tasmania, 200 B Battery, the best way to test value of lodes, 31 Becker, on Comstock lode, 42, 43 Belting, Data as to, 178, 180 Bischof, experiment on formation of dendroidal gold, 39 Black jack, 33 Blanket tables, 79 Boilers, How to clean, 164 Boiling points, 184 Boring, 172 Bottom, Signs of, 20 Braidwood nugget, 54 Brass, How to clean, 165 Brückner furnace, 105 Bucket, Hide, 139 Bulk of materials, 180 Burra Burra Mine, 24 Bush bed, 130 Bynoe harbour, Tin at, 32 C California pump, 171 Challenger ore feeder, 74, 75