Abstract
IN this pamphlet, originally published as an article in the Oesterreichischen Zeitschrift für Berg und Hüttenwesen, the author has brought together a vast amount of useful information on these two important tin-yielding localities. At the present time, when the trade in this important but sparingly-distributed metal has been almost entirely diverted from its ancient centres in Cornwall and Saxony by the development of the sources of supply in the East Indies and Australia, the valuable details contained in this pamphlet cannot fail to be read with much interest. By far the largest and most reliable part of the information on these districts is inaccessible to most readers, from the fact of its being written in the Dutch language, and Dr. Reyer has done good service in bringing together so much material in a compendious and available form. The geological structure of the districts, the distribution of the ore in them, the methods of working, and the mineral statistics of the two areas, are very fully described, and the monograph concludes with an interesting sketch of the life of the Chinese immigrants who are engaged in working these tin ores in the Malay Archipelago.
Banka und Biliton.
Von Dr. E. Reyer. (Vienna, 1879).
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J., J. Banka und Biliton . Nature 20, 624 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020624b0
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