DESULPHURISING ORES.
Referring to the Sydney cable stating that a successful method had been discovered for desulphurising sulphide ore without the aid of roasting furnances, the Auckland Star mining reporter says that should this prove to be the case one of the hardest problems in mining will have been solved, and an enormous impetus will necessarily be given to the industry generally, as some of the richest lodes contain gold in sulphide form, and are therefore not amendable to treatment by the orclinary battery process. To such districts as Waiomo and Great Barrier Island a successful method of cheaply desulphurising sulphide ores would mean renewed activity, and the establishment of a big mining, industry, doing away as it would with the costly and combrous method of concentrating ore and shipping the concentrates to New South Wales for treatment. Nor is it to those districts alone that the gain would be confined, for all companies seem to have more or less mineralised ore to deal with as they go down.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 September 1901, Page 4
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169DESULPHURISING ORES. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 September 1901, Page 4
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