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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 210, 11 September 1901, Page 4

Referring to the Sydney cable message regarding the successful method which has been discovered for desulphurising sulphide ore without the aid of roasting furnaces, the Star’s mining reporter says that should this prove to be the case one of the hardest problems in mining will I 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 the ore is therefore not amenable to treatment by the ordinary battery process. To such districts as Waiomo and the 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 cumbrous method of concentrating the ore and shipping the concentrates to Hew South Wales for treatment. But it is not to those districts alone the gain would be confined, for all companies seem to have more or less mineralised ore to deal with as they go down. In politics nowadays nothing succeeds like success—except unionism.