QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS
PROSPECTS OF NEW INDUSTRY (From Our Own Correspondentl WHANGAREI, To-day. About 800 acres of Ngawha Springs, between Kaikohe and Ohaeawai, have been purchased by Imperial Chemical industries, Limited, the largest chemical concern in the world, with a view to prospecting for quicksilver. The purchasing company’s engineer. ; .Mr. R. 11. Goodwin, put down about SOO bores over tho cinnabar-bearing property, and as a result of thetesu it is believed mercury-treating worton a large scale will be commence': soon. The deposits at Ngawha an 4 Puhipuhi are said to be the only cinnabar crops in the British Empire.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 381, 15 June 1928, Page 12
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98QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 381, 15 June 1928, Page 12
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