NOTES ON CHROMIC IRON ORE

Its Modes of Occurrence, Mining, Dressing, Uses, and Value, With a Register of New South Wales LocalitiesIn 1892, Mr. Wright, a chemist at Mittagong, interested himself in a group of chromite deposits on the east fall of Mooney Mooney Range, about 4 miles north-easterly from Coolac railway station. These eventually became the scene of the first practical mining operations, over tons being dis patched from them during 1894