IRONSAND TESTS.
VALUABLE MINERALS Some time ago a quantity of Taranaki ironsand was sent to Sydney for experimental purposes. The results of the experiments are now available, and show that after reducing the sand to 8 per cent, of its bulk, the concentrations give values of from 120 to 130 ounces of gold, platinum and iridium. Profeasor Pitmar, who saw the tests, stated that in the black sands of Taranaki was sufficient wealth to pay off the national debt. The assays were made by Professor Roberts, chief assayer to the New South Wales Government. Local tests of the raw sands show values equally as high as those determined in Sydney. The New Zealand analyist affirms that the sand is feebly radio-active. Private research also detected radium salts in tho sand. Gold is valued (in America) to-day at £5 12s 6d per ouqce, platinum £lB per ounce, and iridium at -}d per grain. If the quantities are sufficient to make extraction commercially practicable it would seem that there is much latent wealth lying unexploited at Taranaki’s doors.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1922, Page 4
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176IRONSAND TESTS. Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1922, Page 4
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