Western Australia.
An important discovery has been made in the Great Boulder Mine, Kalgoorlie. Native silver has been met with, which is found to contain fine crystals of natural amalgam such as is found in very few mines in the world. The discovery proves the existence of mercury in the ore, occurring probably in the form of cinnabar. The find is of commercial as well as scientific value, and is another link in the chain of evidpncfi that the lodes go down to a considerable depth. Later details show that the discovery of native silver was made in the Great Boulder Perseverance mine at Kalgoorlie. Specimens are to be forwarded for examination by eminent mineralogists in London and Berlin. In the Lake View Consols mine a lode of remarkably rich natural gold and silver amalgam has been discovered. Picked samples assayed 890oz of gold and 9680z of silver to the ton. — Press Association.
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Manawatu Herald, 3 June 1897, Page 2
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153Western Australia. Manawatu Herald, 3 June 1897, Page 2
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