Cape York Peninsula - A History of Unlauded Heroes 1845-2003 by Lennie Wallace

This book has a chapter on "From Gold to Tin Mining and the Nascent Cattle Industry" and includes Harbord, Groganville, Quartzborough, and Normanby fields. Ebagoolah, Starcke and Coen Gold Strikes. Tin at Rossville, Mt Romeo and Trevethan

The erst of the book is very much centred on the Cape and the unlauded heroes.